Verboticisms

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: rōmantēk

Sentence: Despite their flaws and foibles the elderly couple still have romantique feelings for each other. The fact that they occasionally call each other by the dog’s name seems to make no difference.

Etymology: Romantic (inclined toward or suggestive of the feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love) + Antique (having a high value because of considerable age)

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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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: am/orr/ro/tic 

Sentence: George and Clara, in their late eighties, have a 62 year amourotic relationship.

Etymology: AMOUROTIC - from AMAUROTIC (blind; total loss of vision) + AMOUR (love)= BLIND LOVE - - - OR ---AMOUROTIC - from AMOUR (love) + EROTIC (devoted to; dominated by love, or desire)

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COMMENTS:

Wow! good for them! - splendiction, 2009-02-13: 11:55:00

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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: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: eee rah lent eye ns

Sentence: The eralentines were as in love as ever, although what used to be erotic was now erratic.

Etymology: era valentines

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Created by: sherhzade

Pronunciation: luv-ever

Sentence: Looking into Mat's eyes, Gina knew that she had found her lovever.

Etymology: Love- be attached to or feel affection for + ever - for perpetuity

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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: zrotv

Pronunciation: tŏl'ər-ŭv

Sentence: My mother disapproved. My father was disappointed. My best friends all thought I was crazy. Not as crazy as they thought she was, but crazy nonetheless. Had I not been suffering from a particularly tenacious infection of tolerove, perhaps their opinions would have meant something to me. "The Girl friend from hell", they called her, and not without reason. We'd broken up and gotten back together on a semi-weekly basis for years now. She was prone to hysterical fits, and manic outbursts; the occasional month-long binge of compulsive lying was always a treat. I had only received advice to end it, but I couldn't. The tolerove had grown, and spread into every aspect of my being. I had become so accustomed to the madness that resistance seemed futile. It consumed me so deeply, that now I considered it likely to be inoperable, and I resigned. We were likely to be tolerovers forever.

Etymology: Tolerance (the capacity to endure hardship or pain) + Love (A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection) ...Tolerove sounds a little like "cholera" (An acute infectious disease)

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Created by: Lemtin

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: val en tymes

Sentence: Catherine & Eddy had been together for over 50 years. Through good times and bad, they remained in love and were perpetual valentimes.

Etymology: Valentine (a sweetheart chosen to receive a greeting on Saint Valentine's Day) & Times (ages, long periods)

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