Verboticism: Pheretfulness
DEFINITION: n. Anxiety caused by fear that one's body odor may offend others; often exacerbated when required to remove heavy sweaters, or footwear.v. To worry about the way you smell.
Pheretfulness
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: fer-et-ful-ness
Sentence: Until the inverntion of deoderant, athletes and pubescents alike carried with them (literally) a looming pheretfulness that also inspired the development of ugg boots.
Etymology: from pheromones and fretfulness
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