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'It didn't use to bug you'

DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.

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Thornnoy

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: thawr-noi

Sentence: She used to call him by his given name, Roy. Now because of his thornnoying habits she doesn't call him at all.

Etymology: thorn (something that wounds, annoys, or causes discomfort) + annoy (irritate, upset )

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Cattribute

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kat trib yewt

Sentence: When Jimmy Rattner met Catrina, he thought her devotion to cats was cute. One of her main cattributes was wearing jewellery, clothing, hair accessories, purses and shoes with cat designs on them. After never seeing her in anything but cat couture, he started to grow tired of it all. She finally invited him in for a coffee & a KitKat, only for him to discover her other cattribute was to own 20 cats in a one-bedroom apartment. So used his main rattribute and ran out on her without a word, never to call again. Rats! she thought...Cat must have got his tongue.

Etymology: Cat (feline mammal) & Attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)

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Irrimating

Created by: MrDigdigdig

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Bob's nose picking quickly became irrimating to Linda

Etymology:

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Procrasstination

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: Pro-crass-tin-ay-shun

Sentence: Sometimes procrastination occurs in older relationships when the initial "cute" factor wears off.

Etymology: Crass (gross) + Procrastination (Put off till later... as in later in the relationship)

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Quabit

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: kwaa bit

Sentence: Diane always had the quabit of finishing of your...

Etymology: from quirk and habit, bit obvious but I'm not feeling that original today.

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COMMENTS:

Reminds me of a quantum computing qubit. It's like a habit that is only annoying depending on your point of view. On an only slightly related point, I once used "qubyte" in a round of Scrabble! - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:43:00

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Quirkedout

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: qwerked-out

Sentence: Julie was quirkedout by Dan's annoying habbit of clicking his teeth.

Etymology: quirk + past tense + out

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Divugnance

Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: His once endearing habit of winking at her was quickly becoming a divugnance.

Etymology: from diversion as in quirk, abboration or abnomality and repugnance as in distaste, repulsion and resentment.

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Endearaffront

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: en-DEER-a-front

Sentence: Connie's neighing laugh had at first seemed endearing, but Jerry was so endearaffronted by it that he was planning to desert her.

Etymology: endear (attract) + affront (offense) + Ends here (it's all over as of now)

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COMMENTS:

petaj Better late than never - petaj, 2007-02-16: 02:12:00

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Shidosyncrasy

Created by: Erik1

Pronunciation: Shid-e-o-syn-crow-see

Sentence: For shidosyncrasy the poison was in the dose.

Etymology: Shutdown (or perhaps another word) ;) + idiosyncrasy

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Vexappeal

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: vex ap peel

Sentence: Rodney's bad habits were finally starting to grate on Stephanie. His sex appeal had long since become a vexappeal for her. She should have known when he told her that his family motto was, "You can pick your nose, but n ot your relatives..."

Etymology: Vex (irk, annoy) & Appeal (attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates) Wordplay on Sex appeal (attractiveness to the opposite sex)

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Comments:

wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...

ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.