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DEFINITION: v. To find your one, true love but to be unable, or unwilling, to recognize it. n. A perfect match, warts and all.
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Porklove
Created by: Moonstar
Pronunciation: Pork-love
Sentence: Bess looked over at Glen and looked quickly away. He was so....UGH! And he just INFURIATED her! But deep inside, Bess knew that she loved him...But he was so frustrating and cold! She couldn't love him!...It was Porklove.
Etymology: Porklove is the hate of someone you love-you love them, but because of some feature or something they've done, you don't want to.
Sloughlove
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: sluff - luv
Sentence: Inez just would not take Tommy seriously. Tommy knew they were a perfect match in every way but he kept getting the sloughlove from her. Inez could not say what the problem was. She could find nothing wrong with Tommy, liked to spend time with him and felt attracted to him....she just couldn't put her finger on what was wrong.
Etymology: slough off + love + a play on the term "tough love" >>> slough off (discard as undesirable - love (be enamored or in love with)
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COMMENTS:
well-crafted word - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 13:28:00
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Sowlmate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: saw el mate
Sentence: All those penned up feelings came out at last, when Sty Stallone and his partner, Piggy Lee, had a banger of a fight. Even though he snorted about her, he knew she was oinkredible. She was his sowlmate and thanks to weee-harmony.com, he had found his hamelot. And swine not? She gave him tenderloins.
Etymology: Sow (an adult female pig or hog) & Solemate (a person ideally suited to another as a close friend or romantic partner)
Imperaffection
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: impərəfekshən
Sentence: When they first met John & Jane were not attracted to each other. Neither is exactly a runway model but after hanging out for a while imperaffection set in. Beauty may only be skin deep but these two are happy down to their bones.
Etymology: imperfect (faulty) + affection (a gentle feeling of fondness or liking)
Disinfatuatious
Created by: kathleenlarry
Pronunciation: dis un fat u a shus
Sentence: The mans love for the woman was disinfatuated becuase of the constant ignorance from her.
Etymology: dis meaning not, infatuated- to be filled with a passion of love,
Inglove
Created by: johnnyc443
Pronunciation: In glove
Sentence: When someone has met their true love but is too ignorant to realize it
Etymology: Ingnorant (lacking of education or knowledge Love (Feeling of intense desire)
Falsaffection
Created by: carterbrown
Pronunciation: phals-affection
Sentence: When Sally met Joe falsaffection was in the air, but they couldn't even see it.
Etymology: Fals- decieve/dissapoint Affection- an emotion of the mind, passion, lust as opposed to reason
Mistysmitten
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Miss-tee-smitt-en
Sentence: Gary and Sally had been friends for years, everyone expected them to get together as they were the perfect match. Gary was secretly in love with her and although Sally cared deeply for him she was totally mistysmitten, she was completely blind to the fact that he was her soul mate and they would make the perfect couple.
Etymology: Misty(Hazy, indistinct) + Smitten(to be strongly attracted to someone) = Mistysmitten
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COMMENTS:
tops for tenderness and being right on the definition - silveryaspen, 2009-02-12: 13:22:00
Very nice!! - Mustang, 2009-02-12: 18:14:00
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Heartofhearing
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: heart/of/hear/ing
Sentence: Jason just didn't listen to his inner feelings, his gut about Jenny, his best friend and confidant, always looking past her to the next disastrous girl-friend on the horizon. He was just heartofhearing.
Etymology: HEARTOFHEARING - play on hard of hearing
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by verbotomy. Thank you verbotomy. ~ James