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DEFINITION: A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships.
Mustuness
Top verboticism of the day created by administraitor
Pronunciation: must + you + ness
Sentence: They were a team – they thought and spoke as one. Whenever she started a sentence he would finish it. Until one day, when his mustuness finally drove her to a break up, he kissed himself off before he realized it.
Etymology: "must you!" + an ending
Created by: administraitor.
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Idiotsyncrasy: /ihd-ee-uht-SIHNGK-ruh-see/ Alex's idiotsyncrasy of ending every sentence with "um, but, yeah..." drove his date off very fast. Etymology: idiot + idiosyncrasy Created by: mplsbohemian.
Comments:
Good word- pretty much the one I was looking for! I used "hideosyncrasy" in my sentence but also consider odiosyncrasy, whimsiosyncrasy, insidiocrasy. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-15: 09:04:00
Automatetic: /Aww-toe-MATE-tick/ Sylvia knew that Dewayne's personal scratching was an involutary habitual response to sitting in one place too long, but the sheer repetitiveness of his automatetic was beginning to inspire her to sharpen all the knives, scissors, and axes in the house. Etymology: Auto (prefix meaning "without thought or effort") + mate (significant other) + tic (muscle twitch) Created by: Kyoti.
Comments:
ha, got my vote...great sentence - remistram, 2007-08-15: 09:40:00
Endearritating: /en-deer-it-ay-ting/ she found his crazy laugh endearritating Etymology: endearing, irritating Created by: rikboyee.
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