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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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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)
Pumptilious
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pump/till/ius
Sentence: Jenny is so pumptilious about owning every new pump that comes on the market that she surreptitiously takes pictures on the subway with her blackberry to help her with her shopping.
Etymology: punctilious + pump
Monolomanic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: man olo man ik
Sentence: Carrie had become a Manolomanic. Although she had already blown thousands on her collection of the flimsy, expensive Manolo Blahnik spikes, she could not get enough. She had run off with her boyfriend Cleat, who was a loafer with a cute brogue who had created a sandal when he did a sneaker and became a runner the day of their wedding. He did a flip-flop and decided to go through with the wedding even though he had no sole, was a heel with a loose tongue and had a permanent wedgie. Luckily Carrie was not too Jimmy Choo-sey and they lived happily on a shoestring ever after!
Etymology: Manolo Blahnik (Expensive,Designer shoe name, made more famous on Sex In The City) & Manic (affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason).
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COMMENTS:
roflmao - mrskellyscl, 2009-07-20: 07:07:00
:-) - Mustang, 2009-07-21: 07:50:00
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Imeldaranged
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Ih - MEL - duh - ranjd
Sentence: Gracielda was absolutely imeldaranged, caught up in a compulsion to buy any and every pair of shoes or other footwear that caught her eye.
Etymology: Blend of Imelda - well known shoe nut Imelda Marcos, and deranged
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COMMENTS:
I like how it rolls off the tongue - and makes me chuckle. Nice one! - mikeysfbay, 2008-06-02: 09:03:00
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-02: 13:18:00
such Imeldacity! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-02: 22:47:00
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Impedicunious
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: im/pedi/kew/nee/us
Sentence: Sally was so impedicunious that when she finally found herself homeless she was able to build a shelter made entirely of shoes. She even landscaped with shoe trees.
Etymology: impecunious (having little or no money) + pedi (to do with the foot)
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COMMENTS:
Love the shoe trees! I'm going to put them in my yard - wordmeister, 2008-06-02: 13:54:00
I remember her tootin' on her shoe horn and her 'shoe' fly pie is the best there is. - Mustang, 2008-06-02: 20:46:00
At least she had some shubbbery - funny sentence and good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-02: 22:50:00
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Hardshell
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: |hɑːd| |ʃɛl|
Sentence: Julie was a tough nut for the craic. She needed to be tough on account of her choice of footwear. The only thing tougher than Julie was Julie's feet, bulletproof they where. Very hardshell feet and a weakness for Gucci shoes or any strapless 6" heel, that's our Julie.
Etymology: Loose association of Hard sell and hard shell...which only makes sense to me, and in the context outlined above.
Lameshui
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Leym-SHOO-ee or la-mey shwee
Sentence: Despite her claim that she had imelded the best traditionals of East and West, in the end Roxie's fascination with style, rather than comfort, led to an expensive and painful case of lameshui. However, all was not lost, she insisted, didn't lame always come with gold and silver?
Etymology: LAME: Impaired or disabled through defect or injury, esp in the foot or legs so as to walk with difficulty. LAME: an ornamental fabric in which metallic threads, as of gold or silver are woven with silk or wool etc., SHUI:Chinese system of spiritual influences the way in which one does things in life. SHU: homophone of shoe: footwear.
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COMMENTS:
nice twist - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-02: 13:22:00
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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
Shoeoloigest
Created by: elliskiana
Pronunciation: shoe - oloi - gest
Sentence: study of shoe's, and how they're mad .... so yeah ahhaaaa :) sorry if my spelling sucks ... !! How there designe from the beging ..
Etymology: unknown ...
Fetishoe
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: feh - TISH- oo
Sentence: Fetishoe. Gesundheit. her shoe shopping penchant was an illness.
Etymology: fetish + shoe + atishoo (sneeze)
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