Verboticism: Canditoxifer

'They're so cute! What kind of kittens are they? Porcupines.'

DEFINITION: Something, or someone, that appears to be warm and fuzzy but is, when you get close, sharp and prickly.

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Canditoxifer

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: can-dee-TOKS-ee-fer

Sentence: Roxy's fixed botoxy beam never waned,always gleaming warm and fuzzy. But beneath that manufactured mien lurked more malice than mellow. She was a canditoxifer: in look, glowing warm and fuzzy; of tongue, poisonous and arrow sharp.

Etymology: Based on, and a blending of the words, Candy (Fr):crystallized sugar; Cand,-e,(L):glowing warmly; Tox,-ic,(L):poison; Tox,-euma,(G):arrow, and Fer,(L):agent,doer.

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Comments: Canditoxifer

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-31: 16:54:00
Wow - what a sentence!! I wish I had more votes