Vote for the best verboticism.
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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Wedshock
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: wedshäk
Sentence: Julie should have guessed that there was odd about her new husband’s insistence that her bff Joan go along on their honeymoon. Sure, there was a great discount for the added ticket sale but did they really need to share a room? Julie is now in wedshock. She discovered Joan and her new hubby showering together when she returned from shopping. They tried to say that they were just saving water but she’s not buying it. The only question now, divorce or wedGlock?
Etymology: wedlock (the state of being married) +shock (a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience)
Bridegloom
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: bryd - gloom
Sentence: Coming into the honeymoon bedroom with joyful expectations only to find her new husband, Brad, and her best friend Miranda staining grandmas heirloom satin sheets, Samantha first had a hysterical fit followed by a case of very deep and foreboding bridegloom.
Etymology: Blend of bride and gloom, play on the word 'bridegroom'.
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-11: 12:13:00
good one... - Nosila, 2008-06-11: 21:40:00
Excellent - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 08:19:00
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Instavorcial
Created by: Tanik
Pronunciation: in-sta-vor-s-ial
Sentence: Sally was feeling instavorcial when she saw Bob and Tina in the guest room trying out Grandma's gift. She had always wanted satin sheets!
Etymology: instant + divorce
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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Spoustracised
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: spows-tra-sized
Sentence: Chloe was mortified. Dan, the man of her dreams or so she thought, humping away with best friend and maid of (dis)honour Jane. The bitch had seduced her new hubby and she had been left truly spoustracised on her special day.
Etymology: spouse - husband or wife; ostracised - forced out, ignored
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COMMENTS:
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-12: 07:23:00
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Weddincandescence
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Wedd-din-can-dess-sense
Sentence: She was more than incandescent - she was weddincandescent.
Etymology: See above.
Sheetcheats
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sheet-cheet
Sentence: Jill was stunned to find that her new husbum was a sheetcheat. She began to suspect something when she heard that her girlfriend just happened to book a vacation the same place they were having their honeymoon.
Etymology: sheet (a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding) + cheat (to deceive)
Incenflayed
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: in-sen-flayd
Sentence: When Bella walked in on her husband of one hour and best friend of ten years lying in her bed making poor excuses, she was incenflayed.
Etymology: "Incensed" (made angry) + "betrayed" with aesthetic and semantic help from "inflamed" (made sore, set on fire, a number of other relevant meanings).
Shagrin
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: shag + rin
Sentence: Oh, the shagrin I felt when I found them... well, it was more like "murderous rage," but that's hardly a verboticism.
Etymology: shag + chagrin
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COMMENTS:
Nicely done! - urbanwookie, 2007-04-01: 19:26:00
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Bobbittosis
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: bob-it-toe-sis
Sentence: The shocking bedroom scene sent her into an acute attack of bobbittosis..the result is too graphic to put in print
Etymology: bobbitt (as in Lorena Bobbitt) + psychosis
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by sunny09.
Thank you sunny09! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by sheets. Thank you sheets. ~ James