Verboticism: Enfabler
DEFINITION: n. A harmless untruth, intended to comfort simple souls. v. To use a little bit a fiction to smooth over the perplexities and complexities of life.
Enfabler
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: en fay belur
Sentence: Most parents are enfablers to ease their little ones through life's stages. Case in point is when the kiddies start losing their baby teeth. If the tooth in question is put under the child's pillow, their parents tell them that the Tooth Fairy will take it away while they sleep and leave them money. Truth is, they should tell the kids to put away that money for when their adult teeth start falling out and they need to pay a dentist huge sums to replace them...
Etymology: Enabler (one who can render capable or able for some task; makes it easier) & Fable (a deliberately false or improbable account; a short moral story; often using imaginary or supernatural events)
Points: 833
Comments: Enfabler
metrohumanx - 2009-11-02: 01:48:00
You mean there IS no tooth fairy? I'm shattered!
Nosila - 2009-11-02: 09:29:00
Relax, though...there is a Santa Claus and an Easter Bunny!
splendiction - 2009-11-02: 23:13:00
So trutooth.
mweinmann - 2009-11-03: 07:52:00
splendid