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DEFINITION: v. To obsessively work on, shine and polish something which has no intrinsic value. n. A item which has lots of imagined shine in the eyes of the owner, but no real value for anyone else.
Verboticisms
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Obuffsess
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: o buff sess
Sentence: Sham first obuffsessed with her car being shinysmooth and clean. Her obsession with well-buffed appearances crept into her home as she obuffsessed about the lustrous glossyness of her leather and wood furniture. Her hands perpetually ached, but there was no end to her obuffsession: woodwork, tile, sinks, lightswitch covers, doorlatches, her dog's collar, the electicity box outside her home...
Etymology: From the words buff (shine a surface) and obsess (have a preoccupation with something - in this case buffing anything, especially commonly-touched surfaces, to a shine).
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-10: 21:43:00
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Endeadvor
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: en DED ver
Sentence: Inna Fectiv is always working on some futile endeadvor. None of her ideas ever go anywhere, because no one ever wants any of her inventions. Her latest creation is a multi-story cage system for cats, which she calls her "Pet Projects." She keeps forgetting that cats don't like to be in cages, and usually protest it vigorously, so if you have a number of them together, the yowling is almost ear-splitting.
Etymology: endeavor + dead
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COMMENTS:
Pet Projects...cute! - Nosila, 2010-09-22: 00:07:00
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Trasure
Created by: jessicadobies
Pronunciation: traa-sheur
Sentence: The peice of junk metal was pure trasure to the artist.
Etymology: tra- coming from the word trash -sure coming from the word treasure
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COMMENTS:
so clever! - jessicadobies, 2012-02-17: 15:15:00
dayum gurl gud 1 - andrewmcshea, 2012-02-17: 15:16:00
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Gempty
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: jem - tee
Sentence: Clarise treasured her mom's jewelry and gemstones. She liked to take them out, admire them and polish them. They really had sentimental value but they were largely gempty from the standpoint of appraised value.
Etymology: Gem and Empty
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COMMENTS:
great create for costume jewelry - silveryaspen, 2009-03-10: 21:40:00
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Finetoon
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fyne toon
Sentence: No matter what Naomi did to her resume, it always looked like someone had had to finetoon it. How else would her work history look like such a piece of fiction?
Etymology: Fine-tune (polish and perfect) & Toon (cartoon;imaginery, humourous drawing;caricature)
Perfectioneering
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: per-fek-shun-EER-ing
Sentence: Something of a drama queen and one with a notable lack of self esteem Miranda would work incessantly to improve any and all manner of things from her written essays to her doll collection to her flatware, believing that her perfectioneering would somehow transform mundane things into works of art.
Etymology: Blend of perfection and engineering (engineer - To plan, manage, and put through by skillful acts or contrivance; maneuver)
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COMMENTS:
Well done. Good sentence. Good word. - kateinkorea, 2009-03-10: 08:42:00
A true classic! A real keeper! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-10: 12:18:00
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-10: 12:22:00
Great word and sentence, mustang,I may well borrow that word to pepper in conversations! - Nosila, 2009-03-10: 21:59:00
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Glitturd
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: glitɜrd
Sentence: Despite all the hype and awesome advertising campaign, Ralph discovered the "as seen on TV" product he had just spent far too much money on was, in fact, a glitturd.
Etymology: glitter (sparkle) + turd (excrement)
Curriculumwitty
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kuri kyulum wittee
Sentence: Una M. Ploid was working on her resume for the nine hundredth time, to the consternation of her hubby Phil Lee M. Ploid. She had never worked a day in her life, so finding things to fill in the gaps in her work history was a challenge. She decided to list hobbies and achievements instead. She called this work her curriculumwitty, because among her hobbies she knits hats for bald eagles and feeds the squirrels (to larger carnivores). She still cannot figure out why no one ever calls her back...
Etymology: Currculum Vitae (resume;a summary of your academic and work history) & Witty (combining clever conception and facetious expression)
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COMMENTS:
Great idea c= - RightOnTheWin, 2010-09-21: 09:21:00
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Misapprehenshine
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: miss ap ree hench eye nn
Sentence: The ornamental 300 pound cast iron weathervane which Jane's late demented husband had sculpted into a very rough image of Mount Rushmore and bolted to the chimney, gave way under the force of her polishing and fell into the Jones' garden, killing Mr Jones as he lovingly tended his asparagus. How upset she was to see her neighbour under a misapprehenshine.
Etymology: misapprehension, shine
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-10: 12:20:00
I love this sentence- it has drama, tragedy, and guffaws, too! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-10: 12:29:00
great word, too! - splendiction, 2009-03-10: 16:52:00
I laughed, I cried... - Nosila, 2009-03-10: 22:00:00
hahahaha....fun - mweinmann, 2009-03-11: 07:59:00
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Preciouscosious
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: pre/shush/coe/shush
Sentence: Gollum would be considered preciouscosious in his obsession with the ring.
Etymology: precious + precosious
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COMMENTS:
Wow.Looks intimidating, but once you pronounce it, you can get into the hobbit of using it. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-10: 12:26:00
Great word! - Mustang, 2009-03-11: 00:00:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James