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DEFINITION: n. The mental state induced by the discovery your new husband, and your maid of honor, entangled in the satin sheets given to you as a wedding present by your grandmother. v. To catch your new husband in a close quarters with a close friend.
Verboticisms
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Tomfoolastoundery
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: tom-fool-astound-ery
Sentence: I wonder if hilary clinton went into tomfoolastoundery when she found out about her husband's sultry scandel from congress?
Etymology: from tomfoolery + fool around + astound
Chickinsheet
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: ch -ee-ken- sh- eet
Sentence: when I saw them together I knew I was in chickensheet.
Etymology: chick- smal bird, young lady sheet- long bolt of material used as bed dressing.
Weddoplexy
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: WEDD-o-PLE-xy
Sentence: She had expected to feel many emotions today - but weddoplexy had not been one of them....
Etymology: From "wedding" and "apoplexy"
Honeylunacy
Created by: WindingRoad
Pronunciation: [HUHN-ee-LOO-nuh-see]
Sentence: Ellen felt herself slip into honeylunacy after stumbling onto Steve and Kate's little liaison.
Etymology: Honey (from E honeymoon) and lunacy (from L lunaticus [crazy])
Connuboil
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kuh/noo/boil
Sentence: On finding her new husband and the maid of honour in granny's gift, Jenny went into a state of connuboil, throwing and breaking every dish, piece of crystal and knick-knack she could get her hands on.
Etymology: CONNUBOIL - noun - from CONNUBIAL (Relating to marriage, or the married state; conjugal) + BOIL (rage; anger; to be in an agitated, or violent state)
Mattressidal
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Mat-ress-idal
Sentence: Lisa felt positively mattressidal when she discovered her new husband Tony in a compromising position on the marriage bed with her maid of honor and 'best friend' Sue. And to top it all off they were using the black satin sheets bought by her rather 'racy' grandmother as a wedding gift!!
Etymology: Mattress (Fabric filled case used on a bed.)Arabic 'carpet or cushion'. + Suicidal(The intention to kill oneself) Latin sui 'of oneself' +caedere 'kill' = Mattressidal
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COMMENTS:
Great word! funny! - wordmeister, 2008-06-11: 00:18:00
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-11: 12:13:00
Funny and creative. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 07:26:00
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Revelustation
Created by: moltentim
Pronunciation: rev/ull/lust/a/shun
Sentence: Jill had a revelustation when she walked in on her husband with the maid.
Etymology: revelation + lust
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COMMENTS:
With the maid? Perhaps he was just trying to clean up his act... - wordmeister, 2007-03-27: 09:11:00
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Marrage
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: mer/rage
Sentence: On finding her new husband and the maid of honour, she went into a state of marrage throwing and breaking everything she could get her hands on.
Etymology: marriage + rage
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COMMENTS:
I considered something similar to this before deciding it didn't really allude to the sheets or the cheats as well as other words might. Marrage, to the casual observer, may as well be a nondescript form of anger directed at one's spouse (to be). It lacks specifics. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 08:00:00
Great word, simple and succinct - you just have to stress the second syllable to get the full effect - try it - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 09:55:00
That's nice (^^), but ditto my previous comment regarding it being too generalised for the definition, and that it makes the assumption that the mental state induced would be one of anger, as opposed to shock, disappointment, disbelief etc. For me, assigning rage as the sole emotion here is myopic. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 11:23:00
methinks we have a psychiatrist in our midst - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 12:19:00
No, just a fool who's seen too many shrinks in his time. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-27: 15:31:00
Certainly not a fool - good sense of humour though - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 19:54:00
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Shagrin
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: shagg ran
Sentence: Her shagrin at what she witnessed on the shagpile of the honeymoon suite was expressed in an infortinate manner. Strangulation by old borrowed blue garter was the coronor's verdict.
Etymology: chagrin (sadness) Shag (erm...)
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COMMENTS:
great - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-11: 12:09:00
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 08:19:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by sunny09.
Thank you sunny09! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by sheets. Thank you sheets. ~ James