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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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Fishment
Created by: JCrap
Pronunciation: Fish/mint
Sentence: When he complained to his friends that he wasn't good at anything he was really just fishmenting and wanted to boost his ego.
Etymology: To fish for compliments.
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
Humbull
Created by: TheBocaj
Pronunciation: HUHM-buhl
Sentence: Janice was Humbull; She knew she was a great cook, but insisted upon faking meekness after fishing a compliment out of a satisfied dinner guest.
Etymology: To be Humble as an act/load of crap [Bull]
Strokego
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Stro-kego
Sentence: I strokegoed her for most of the night, despite the fact every man in the bar hit on her.
Etymology: Stroke+ego
Insecuritease
Created by: aoife
Pronunciation: 'in-sek-yer-a-teez'
Sentence: 'John freaked out before his presentation and securiteasing everyone in the room, even though he's the best speaker in the company.'
Etymology: 'insecurity' + 'tease'
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.
Flammiscuous
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: flaw-mis-cu-us
Sentence: As an award-winning creative director for the hottest agency in town, Edward was incredibly flammiscuous. Fortunately, all of his staff recognized this, and always approached on bent knee.
Etymology: flattery + promiscuous =flaw miscue
Praisewheedle
Created by: jboehnker
Pronunciation: praz' wedl
Sentence: "Cut out that praisewheedling!" Bob exclaimed. "If I thought you were fat we wouldn't be naked right now!"
Etymology: From the Welsh "Przhwhdhhlh", originally used to refer to the wives of shepherds needing reassurance about their husbands' "closeness" to their sheep.
Insecueriflatter
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: in-se-KWER-ih-flat-ter
Sentence:
Etymology:
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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.