Verboticisms

Created by: simoneshin

Pronunciation: hah-bitter

Sentence: her mouth formed this habitter smile when -once again- he came in and delightfully exited gave her the red roses. she thought she mentioned hating red roses over a thousand times. o well getting all dolled up and start hanging in bars getting drunk and hooked up didn't seem like the best idea also. so she gratefully accepted and told that he didn't have tot do that. really he didn't...

Etymology: habit + bitter

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ləvjevətē

Sentence: They may not be the perfect couple. There might be bickering. They each might have a boatload of petty annoyances. They might not have all the answers but what they do have is lovegevity. They have learned to forgive and forget. Of course as forgetting gets easier and easier the forgiving becomes automatic.

Etymology: love (an intense feeling of deep affection) + longevity (long life)

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COMMENTS:

Are you really forgiving if you can't remember what you were pissed about? ;) - wayoffcenter, 2009-02-13: 07:16:00

Great word! - Mustang, 2009-02-13: 19:15:00

Love lovegevity! - Nosila, 2009-02-14: 23:11:00

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Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: ig-nor-oh-man-ticks

Sentence: Stacy thought her Gramma and Gramps were such ignoromantics. Yuck! Gramma seemed to delight in picking up Grampies dirty socks every morning. Grampie never complained about Grammie's cold scrambled eggs. Every night after their prayers, they held hands and fell asleep, snoring in unison. They always told her, "Love is patient and kind and hardly notices when something is wrong." Totally Retro!

Etymology: A combination of ignore, meaning to pay no attention + romantic, meaning a romantic person, one who is for love, strong feelings

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COMMENTS:

nice - galwaywegian, 2009-02-13: 09:29:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: komm it mayt

Sentence: They were commitmates. She stayed by his side throughout all the good times and bad, his cheating, drinking, pigeon fancying, flatulance, questionable hygeine, cross-dressing and yodelling. He was constantly amazed at the combination of her enduring love and her life support machine.

Etymology: commitment, mate

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COMMENTS:

you always manage to get that twist in - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:22:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: too - geth - ur - las - ting

Sentence: George and Anita had a togetherlasting love. They had been together forever and it looked like it would last a lifetime. As they hobbled along, with their cane and walker, they still could not take their eyes off each other.

Etymology: Together and Everlasting >> Together (in each other's company,with cooperation and interchange) Everlasting (ageless: continuing forever or indefinitely)

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COMMENTS:

so many sweet stories today - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:30:00

Wonderful word! Will use it a lot. Brings to mind the line from a great love song ... 'ageless and evergreen' - silveryaspen, 2009-02-13: 13:17:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: do/oh/com/pli/si/tee

Sentence: The secret to the longevity in their marriage was a result of duocomplicity and they thrived forgiving each others innumerable faults.

Etymology: duo + duplicity + complicity

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COMMENTS:

Apt...I just finished reading Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy! - readerwriter, 2009-02-13: 09:32:00

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Created by: Moonstar

Pronunciation: Guy-U-Mart

Sentence: Teresa, old and shriveled, looked up with deep love into the eyes of her husband, Tom. She loved him, and he her, even after nearly fifty years of marriage. She knew she would always be his GiyuMart, and he hers.

Etymology: Gi, as in give * yu, as in you *M, as in my * art, as in heart: GiyuMart= Give you My Heart.

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: cup old hearts

Sentence: They had indeed become a couploldhearts, having endured many decades of marriage. "Agreeing often not to agree" was once their tacit way of pushing through to peace; now they had reached a state of calm complicity, fortunately no longer able to see (or hear, for that matter) each other's follies, quirks and...wrinkles!

Etymology: couploldhearts n. This word is from "couple of old farts" as a way of irreverently referring to an old couple and "hearts".

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COMMENTS:

I like your verbotomy version ever so much better than the old saw! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-13: 13:11:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: dahy-nuh-spaʊs

Sentence: Jim and his wife have been together for quite some time. They have a good sense of humor about their relationship. They will often refer to each other as their dinospouse.

Etymology: dinosaur (any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile) + spouse (either member of a married pair)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: part ners in tyme

Sentence: Connie & Clyde had been together so long, they could barely remember their first date. They were partnersintime and it turned out, they had robbed their first bank together and escaped on their getaway horse. That Pony Express guy was no match for them. It just shows that in love, anything is posse-ble!

Etymology: Play on "Partners in Crime" (collusion;people who plot, conspire and stay together) & Time (an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities.

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