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DEFINITION: To require constant reassurance, praise, and -- in emergency situations -- flattery, despite obvious qualifications and/or expertise.
Verboticisms
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Profidence
Created by: Fleury
Pronunciation: PRO-fih-dinse
Sentence: The complete and utter lack of confidence left her with nothing but profidence
Etymology: antonym of "confidence"
Praince
Created by: RyxEuclie
Pronunciation: Pray-n-ce
Sentence: I don't like her, she's too praince.
Etymology:
Attendict
Created by: slumpman
Pronunciation: A-ten-dicked
Sentence:
Etymology: Attention + addict
Mediotekht
Created by: msokoloffster
Pronunciation: Mee - Dee - Oh - Tekt
Sentence: My blind date forced me to mediotekht; we never saw each other again.
Etymology: Unknown...
Phladulation
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: fla-du-la-shun
Sentence: After the Doctor diagnosed his wife's need for phladulation, John knew he has to tell his wife she was beautiful three times a day, or all hell would break loose...
Etymology: phlattery + adulation
Selfscrew
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Am I fat or do I selfscrew myself? Please be honest.
Etymology: self + screw
Parannoying
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: para-noi-ing
Sentence: Jane's continual and parannoying need for praise and reassurance was causing her colleagues some distress. Were they becoming parannoyed?
Etymology: paranoid/paranoia + annoyed
Divaitis
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: dee-vah-eye-tis
Sentence: Molly had sucumbed to divaitis and needed constant reassurance that she was the best surgeon in the hospital.
Etymology: diva (talented but conceited person) + itis (a condition)
Insecutity
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: in-sec-cute-it-ee
Sentence: Mary's insecutity always got worse when James was around.
Etymology: insecurity - cute
Hypocentric
Created by: sir67
Pronunciation: hi poe sen trik
Sentence: I could tell Jill was hypocentric by her constant need of flattery.
Etymology: hypo - low, lacking centric - central
Comments:
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wordmeister - 2006-12-08: 15:42:00
Who has the best word of the day? Any opinions?
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-08: 16:25:00
are you requiring some constant reassurance wordmeister - perhaps some flatterybattery or phladulation and why isn't verbotomy asking??
wordmeister - 2006-12-08: 17:32:00
Yes Jabberwocky that's it -- self-phladulation.
wordmeister - 2006-12-08: 17:36:00
And I see that my score has gone up since I asked, so apparently it's working.
Stevenson0 - 2006-12-08: 17:51:00
confphladulations wordmeister
wordmeister - 2006-12-08: 18:00:00
Hey Stevenson0, Oh thank you, but surely you're not suffering from Aptxiety? Check out last weeks stats -- your word, "Coiffolgy", is the "Word of the week"! So all my confphladulations are directed to you.