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DEFINITION: v. To compulsively shop for and buy shoes that are stylish, sexy and extremely uncomfortable. n. A person who has an uncontrolled, psychological dependency on impractical shoes.
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Poderote
Created by: JeffreyNorris
Pronunciation: 'pȯd-e-rōt
Sentence: When I told him I was a poderote, I had to explain that I liked to buy stylish shoes; he thought it meant I was a foot fetishist!
Etymology: Greek pod "foot" + erot "love"
Heeliotropism
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: hee/leo/trow/pizm
Sentence: Sally had an advanced case of heeliotropism and could not restrain herself from purchasing shoes with higher and higher heels.
Etymology: heliotropism (an involuntary response to the sun's rays) + heel
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COMMENTS:
She's a heeliotramp! - Nosila, 2009-07-20: 12:14:00
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Styletto
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: sty LET oh
Sentence: Candy just loves buying sexy and stylish new shoes from places like Needless Markup - oops, I mean Neiman Marcus. She must have 150 pairs - no, I'm not kidding. She and her husband built an addition onto their bedroom, which they tell everyone was for the luxury bathroom, but really it was so that they could have a walk-in closet - just to hold all her shoes. Her husband was thinking of retiring early on the money he had made as an investment banker, but it isn't going to happen now, between the second mortgage and all the expensive shoes. But he loves and adores her - he calls her his little styletto.
Etymology: style + stiletto
Shoepperholic
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: shoo-per-holl-ik
Sentence: a quick glance in her closet was enough to confirm that she was a hopeless shoepperholic
Etymology: shoe, shopperholic
Solesister
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sole sis ter
Sentence: Whoopie was a true solesister in all ways but her music choices. She was a compulsive shoe buyer but her favourite singer was Heelio Inglesias.
Etymology: Sole (underside of a foot or shoe) & WordPlay on Soul Sister (An African-American woman or girl or someone with whom you share a bond or similarity)
Shoptishist
Created by: mikeysfbay
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'd have a riding lawnmower, but my wife is such a shoptishist, that all I can afford is this scythe.
Etymology: "Shop" + "fetishist"
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COMMENTS:
One has to be mighty careful saying that....could sound like something else. - Mustang, 2008-06-02: 20:48:00
Especially if they've had too much to drink :) - mikeysfbay, 2008-06-03: 01:53:00
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Pedomania
Created by: lilyk12342
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She has a serious case of pedomania
Etymology: ped-foot mania-mental derangement characterized by obsession and delusions
Glyphomania
Created by: BIANCAGRAY1
Pronunciation: Gli-fo-mane-ee-ah
Sentence: The doctor diagnosed the kid with the knife and crazy eyes with glyphomania.
Etymology: Glyph- to carve Mania- obsession
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James