Verboticism: Parentrapment

DEFINITION: n. The emotional connection between a mother and her child, which continues on through life despite all the protestations. v. To be loved by your mother and even though you complain about it a lot.

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Smotherhood

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sməðərhoŏd

Sentence: Joyce is very good at smotherhood. Despite protests from her son Tom, she is involved just about every aspect of his life. She selects what he should wear each day. She plans his diet, what he watches on TV, how he spends his spare time. Tom's wife just wants her to go home for a while.

Etymology: smother (make (someone) feel trapped and oppressed by acting in an overly protective manner toward them) motherhood (being with a female parent)

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Parentrapment

Created by: emdeejay

Pronunciation: pair entrapment

Sentence: Bob once had a case of parentrapment: "Come mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is rapidly agin'." ... Youth is charming, but at times a little selfish and impatient. This is more how I feel: "Love while ya can 'cos too soon they'll be gone, for the times they are a changin'"

Etymology: Parent: mum or dad. Entrapment: a compromising situation imposed upon you. Bob Dylan: You rock, man. Mum: I love you

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nice Dylan reference - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-08: 13:19:00

Fabulous. Love the sentence. - dochanne, 2009-05-08: 19:45:00

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Maternality

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mat urn al it ee

Sentence: She always told her daughter, "You'll always be my baby, even when you're eighty!" It was her chant of maternality. Now her daughter is eighty and she at 100 still has her baby!

Etymology: Maternal (characteristic of a mother) & Eternity (time without end)

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Deprecating

Created by: Tawkir

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Chronicnatophilia

Created by: ChrisKelly

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Claustromomic

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: claws + tro + mom + ik

Sentence: Clyde had felt claustromomic ever since he could remember. When he was ten, he was not allowed to play outside with the other kids because she was afraid he might be hurt; now at 45, she lectured him about how he might get hurt mowing the lawn. He knew she loved him but he just felt so "hemmed in".

Etymology: Claustrophobic (uncomfortably closed or hemmed in) and Mom

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poor Clyde! - Good word! - splendiction, 2009-05-08: 23:14:00

That's some wonderful word making! - Littlewolfdreamer, 2013-09-05: 02:37:00

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Dylanquerncy

Created by: dochanne

Pronunciation: Dill-an-kwern-see

Sentence: Cameron bristled every time his mother's dylanquerncy surfaced, it reminded him of where he once begun, she would 'always be emotionally yours', even when he was unraveling wherever he's traveling, even to foreign shores. Despite his behaviour or her neediness, boy, mama was on his mind!

Etymology: Dylan - rocks; delinquency - objectionable behaviour usu of youth and emotionally laden; maternity/paternity - parentage; infancy - period of immaturity and neediness.

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