Verboticism: Stalkmarket
DEFINITION: n. A person who habitually looks for love in the all the wrong places and wonders why it always turns out wrong. v. To look for love in the wrong places.
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Roameo
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: rome-ee-oh
Sentence: He was getting lots of action, but couldn't find a nice girl to settle down with him. Could it be he was a roameo? He still hoped to hear wedding bells when he took that thirteenth step at Sex Addicts Anonymous.
Etymology: Romeo (Shakespeare's doomed lover) + roam (to go from place to place without purpose or direction.)
Wailinjennings
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: Waylon Jennings
Sentence: After checking out the refuse collection station, the palliative care hostel and the bipolar support group for potential partners, Stephen finally joined Wailinjennings Anonymous, where ironically he met a sweet girl. They fell in love and were promptly kicked out because their change of demeanour was anathema to the other miserable members.
Etymology: Waylon Jennings - country singer who was "lookin for love in all the wrong places" + wailing (crying or singing plaintively)
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COMMENTS:
Great song and verbotomy! You have a humringer here! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 12:19:00
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Goodbarista
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: gud-barr-ees-ta
Sentence: During her summer vacation, Miss Misty Pristine, tried working as a barista in the local tanning salon cum cafe, Sun Brew. She was so overt in her flirting attempts with the married insurance man who liked his French-pressed with hazelnut or the EMT studying to be a Paramedic who always asked for two shots in his Zippee, the house special. The local college students, making up courses in summer sessions, who loved her HavaJavaMints, called her The Goodbarista.
Etymology: From Looking for Mr. GOODBAR, the story of a young teacher looking for love + BARISTA, a mocha maker
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COMMENTS:
terrific reference - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-11: 10:39:00
Also a well-crafted, very clever sentence - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:45:00
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Stalkmarket
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: stok mar ket
Sentence: When Bessie and Clarabelle were looking for dates, they went to the local stalkmarket. It never worked as their chosen dates turned it into a night of whine and roses. Where could they find love that would allow them to live happily heifer after?
Etymology: Stalk (the act of following prey stealthily) & Stock Market(an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers) & Meat Market(not just an actual shop for selling meat, but slang for a bar where people pick up each other)
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Romanthick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: row man thik
Sentence: The romanthick in him knew he would finally meeet his queen as soon as he landed in Africa, maybe even before he got to collect his lottery winnings there!
Etymology: romantic, thick
Concupid
Created by: spotter
Pronunciation: Con cue pid
Sentence: Rick was concupid looking for love in the pharmacy. Marta said, "Suzy is so concupid."
Etymology: Con=Anti; Against Cupid= A symbol of love Therefor; Against a symbol of love
Aortatard
Created by: Meganja
Pronunciation: a-or-tuh-tard
Sentence: Stop being a douchey, terrible judging AORTATARD and listen to your brain when it comes to falling in love.
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Heiferafter
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hef er aft er
Sentence: It was obvious that Madge and Dodie were heiferafter in their search for true love. They were steered in the direction of a meet market and met two young longhorns oxendentally,who were bovine, but uninterested in getting yoked.
Etymology: Heifer (young cow) & Everafter (from here to Eternity)
Loveloined
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: luv loynd
Sentence: Nothing was sadder than Elsie and Bessie,the Bovine Sisters, a pair of loveloined heifers. Their success at attracting true love was terribull...there had been no chance of oxtasy for them. They were always steered in the wrong direction and although they played the field, literally, they were never stampeded by suitors. They decided to join an on-loin dating service on their cowmputers. They only had one beef with this service, it was udderly impossibull to find a young stud who told the truth and did not shoot the bull. These mavericks were always born a "Taurus", owned their own spread and would love to be a fodder. Their names turned out not to be Angus or Delmonico, but Chuck or Stew. Any success the sisters had with this service was strictly oxcidental. When she herd what they had done, their mother had warned them that Internet dating always ended in steers.
Etymology: lovelorn (unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love) & loin (a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump)
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COMMENTS:
Udderly Puntastic! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 02:26:00
Gives a whole new meaning to beefcake! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:37:00
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Blunderlust
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: BLUN-der-lust
Sentence: Elsie once again found herself suffering the pangs of failed blunderlust, looking for love in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons, and feeling used, abused and definitely discarded....and of course, vowing once again to never go that route again.
Etymology: Blend of 'blunder' (v. to err) and 'lust' (sexual urges), and a play on the word 'wanderlust'...(a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about)