Verboticism: Vexappeal

'It didn't use to bug you'

DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.

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Irrimating

Created by: MrDigdigdig

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Bob's nose picking quickly became irrimating to Linda

Etymology:

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Chewumuy

Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: che-wu-mu-ae

Sentence: I took him for a nice guy when first i met him in university but he proved a chewumuy latter on , i just hate these fellows.

Etymology: chewing + gum. chew form chewing, um from gum. uy from guy. chewing gum tastes great at start but just gets irritating latter on.

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Relationbug

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: re-lei-sjon- bug

Sentence: Sandra was in debug-mode; It was time to remove Jack's relationbug's or terminate the program!

Etymology: relationship - a strange interface between java.human.man() and java.human.woman() ************ bug - undocumented feature in a microsoft-application.

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COMMENTS:

I like it. It even works without the CS reference, as in "to bug someone." It'd be better as two words, but we don't really have that option here. Gets my vote anyway. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:46:00

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Tickleme

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /'tik-&l-"mE/

Sentence: While the toddler quickly learned that affecting a lisp was a good way to get adults to do what she wanted, it wasn't until long after it started having the opposite effect that she realized it for the tickleme it was.

Etymology: As in the "Tickle-me Elmo" doll. Some (not all) may have found it once cute, but no talking toy with less than a 50-sentence vocabulary can help but become annoying after awhile.

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Cattribute

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kat trib yewt

Sentence: When Jimmy Rattner met Catrina, he thought her devotion to cats was cute. One of her main cattributes was wearing jewellery, clothing, hair accessories, purses and shoes with cat designs on them. After never seeing her in anything but cat couture, he started to grow tired of it all. She finally invited him in for a coffee & a KitKat, only for him to discover her other cattribute was to own 20 cats in a one-bedroom apartment. So used his main rattribute and ran out on her without a word, never to call again. Rats! she thought...Cat must have got his tongue.

Etymology: Cat (feline mammal) & Attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)

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Intimesstation

Created by: alphabetapolothology

Pronunciation:

Sentence: His intimesstation of uncontrollable gas had become a black cloud in their relationship.

Etymology: intimate + mess + irritation

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Captainquirk

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: cap/tayn/kwirk

Sentence: Everything was going so well until he pulled a captainquirk over and over and over - time to beam me out Scotty

Etymology: Captain Kirk + quirk

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Funny!! I always felt the captain was a bit quirky. - Stevenson0, 2007-02-15: 11:18:00

Quirky - yes - but regular - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 12:12:00

"I'm...getting the feeling...that..I...could be annoying...you" - Alchemist, 2007-02-15: 22:40:00

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Peccadilly

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: peh-ca-DIL-ee

Sentence: Gloria was appalled when Glenn's public nose picking was revealed as yet another peccadilly to be added to his collection of socially unacceptable faults.

Etymology: Blend of PECCADILLO (Spanish pecadillo, diminutive of pecado sin < Latin peccātum transgression, noun use of neuter of past participle of peccāre to err, offend) and DILLY (something or someone regarded as remarkable, unusual)

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Endearmental

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: enn deeer ment ahl

Sentence: his enderment finally drove her endearmental. She put the bear trap in her (large)Armani bag, before heading out to the disco. "Tonight will be the last time he grabs his crotch when they play Michael Jackson" she promised herself,

Etymology: endearment mental

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Proclirritation

Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: pro-clear-rit-ta-shun

Sentence: His proclirritation to fart without excusing himself used to be cute to her, but now it was just an annoyance.

Etymology: proclivity + irritation

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