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DEFINITION: v. What boyfriends and husbands do while they are waiting their girlfriends and/or wives to shop. n. A person doing such a thing.
Slowmad
Top verboticism of the day created by artr
Pronunciation: SLO-mad
Sentence: As Tom wandered from store to store waiting for his wife to finish her shopping he became just one more slowmad, looking over each item as if he really cared, fending off sales clerks with the slowmad's mantra "Just looking". He also knew that this activity was slowly driving him stark-raving mad. He could feel his sanity slipping away with each step he took. The last thing he wanted to become was a husbutt-parker — those old men who take up every inch of available bench space vacantly staring into space while a mound of packages accumulates at their feet.
Etymology: Slow (Very not fast) + nomad (a desert wanderer)
Created by: artr.
Comments:
RIGHT ON! Great sentence, artr. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:03:00
Slowmad reminds me of Strongbad. http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html - metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:38:00
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Windower: // Greg became a windower everytime he went shopping with Janine. Etymology: Window: the display space in and directly behind a shop window. And Widower: a man who has lost his wife by death and has not remarried. Created by: dessessopsid.
Browdle: /BROW-dle/ Although Tiffany promised that it would only be a 3 minute ("I swear, you can time me!") detour into the Sephora store, Hank was left with nothing to do but browdle myriad products whose use he could not fathom. Etymology: browse (look through or glance at casually) + dawdle (to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter) Created by: legalalien.
Comments:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-27: 16:08:00
Lovely word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-28: 01:06:00
Like it! One can only sympathise with Hank. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-28: 03:10:00
Manopause: /man - oh - pause/ Fred was going through manopause today. He started to sweat, have hot flashes and get overemotional as he waited in the sun for 3 hours while Margaret tried on dresses. Etymology: menopause (a change of life time period where women have many intersting symptoms) + man (a different kind of manopause)..... + pause (to stop or wait) Created by: mweinmann.
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie! ~ James
Can't you be arrested for MASTERWAITING in public?
galwaywegian - 2008-08-27: 05:56:00
Or masterbaiting at college
Today's definition was suggested by kabloozie. Thank you kabloozie. ~ James