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'You're wearing that to the dance?'

DEFINITION: n. A fashion accessory, or an approach to personal hygiene, which is designed, not to attract others, but rather to repel them. v. To dress for protection.

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Keepouterwear

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: keep out er ware

Sentence: Stacie put on her keepouterware when she had to go through parts of Harlem to take out cash.

Etymology: Keep out + Outerwear (clothes)

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Repullsiveness

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: re + pull + sieve + ness

Sentence: I didn't want to be hit on in the gay bar, so I didn't take a shower for 3 days to get my repullsiveness to full strength.

Etymology: repulsive + the British sense of "pull"

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Crapparel

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: cra-pair-ull

Sentence: Her eyes had that come-hither look, but her crapparel clearly screamed "Fuggoff!".

Etymology: crap, apparel

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COMMENTS:

petaj Sounds like a line of clothing available from FrayMart - petaj, 2007-02-23: 23:35:00

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Ohra

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: oh rah

Sentence: She had an unusual ohra, sometimes more a Beeohra, other days an ohohra.

Etymology: aura oh

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Shmuckishwear

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: Shmuk-ish-ware

Sentence: Don't you realize that wearing shmuckishwear nobody will even look twice at you Leona?

Etymology: Shmuckish; Slang for Schmuck and added ish to show ownership of being a shmuckish type of person...;An insulting term for a stupid person or dim-witted fool that dresses to look unattractive on purpose. Wear; To bear or have on the person as in to wear clothes.

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Armoredbracelet

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: ar/mord/brace/let

Sentence: This armoredbracelet works fantastically - one jolt and they're toast

Etymology: armored + arm bracelet

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COMMENTS:

You're right Porsche - your armoredbracelet would be excellent with my haltsirtop - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-23: 10:26:00

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Reparal

Created by: JakeStephens3

Pronunciation: Combining the words repel and appearal to

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Roxburlace

Created by: officespace162

Pronunciation:

Sentence: that roxburlace should keep the creeps away from you at the club

Etymology: night at the roxbury + necklace

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Repparel

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: rep-pa-rel

Sentence: "That weird girl, Rachel, has shown up wearing her repparel. Ugh, why doe she even bother?"

Etymology: a contraction of "repellent" and "apparel"

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Apparellent

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: a-par-el-ent

Sentence: Marsha the barmaid was tired of getting hit on by drunken old fools, so she rejected her usual low cut top in favour of the most apparellent outfit she could think of.

Etymology: apparel (attire, dress) + repellent (distasteful)

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-02-23: 00:01:41
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus.
Thank you erasmus! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-02-23: 00:01:41
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus.
Thank you erasmus! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-02-23: 00:01:41
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus.
Thank you erasmus! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-02-23: 00:01:41
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus.
Thank you erasmus! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-02-23: 00:02:18
Hey Verbotomists, take a look at our first Verbotomy e-book "Word Games & Mind Games". You can download it as a PDF from our News page. ~ James.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-02-23: 00:02:18
Hey Verbotomists, take a look at our first Verbotomy e-book "Word Games & Mind Games". You can download it as a PDF from our News page. ~ James.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-02-23: 00:02:18
Hey Verbotomists, take a look at our first Verbotomy e-book "Word Games & Mind Games". You can download it as a PDF from our News page. ~ James.

adbern - 2007-02-23: 14:20:00
i'm curious about those panties...

adbern - 2007-02-23: 14:24:00
oepssss...I'm sorry

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-17: 12:55:00
Hey Verbotomists, I am running a little contest next week starring my favorite author, Jasper Fforde. He is a fabulous writer with an extremely fertile imagination. He loves playing with words, so he is perfect for us! We will giving a away copy of his first Thursday Next Book, The Eyre Affair, to the top player next week. So get ready to crank up your creative brain power. It's going to be fun. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2011-01-20: 00:07:00
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus. Thank you erasmus. ~ James