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DEFINITION: To require constant reassurance, praise, and -- in emergency situations -- flattery, despite obvious qualifications and/or expertise.
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Femalia
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: fe male ee uh
Sentence: Honey, we got 6 minutes to get to the gate, don't come down with femalia now!
Etymology: from the word female, meaning to need constant flattery and reassurance.
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
Confidented
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: con-fi-den-ted
Sentence: I used to be quite certain but now i'm confidented
Etymology: confidence (certainty) dented (damaged)
Noesteemistis
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: noesteemistis hit her again as her husband merely commented that she looked fine.
Etymology:
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...
Yoropinion
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: your - opinion
Sentence: She was always needing yoropinion before leaving the house.
Etymology: yor - for your opinion - self explainatory
Subworthicate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: sub-were-thi-kate or sub-worth-i-kat
Sentence: Despite his obvious achievements, Shane continued to subworthicate.
Etymology: Based on the notion of undervaluing oneself, but with a conceited need to have others constantly shower you with praise (which itself, conceit-free, would be "worthicate")
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.