Verboticism: Thornnoy

'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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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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Thornication

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: θôrnikāshən

Sentence: Charlie is very good at getting under the skin of his co-workers. He doesn’t mean to be annoying but his habitual activities amount to thornication.

Etymology: thorn (a thorn in someone’s side - a source of continual annoyance or trouble) + fornication (two people not married to each other having sex)

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COMMENTS:

love it...so prickly! - Nosila, 2011-02-10: 23:55:00

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Abiquirk

DaddyNewt

Created by: DaddyNewt

Pronunciation: ahb-i-kwerk

Sentence: Jimmy's demeanor had several fatal abiquirks.

Etymology: abort(to end) + quirk(an eccentricity)

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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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Cutetopuke

Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I thought his messy side was cute, not anymore, it's cutetopuke.

Etymology: It was cute, now she wants to puke.

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Vexitating

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: vex-i-ta-ting

Sentence: Sam was the most vexitating man I ever knew. He had more bad habits than an alcoholic nun.

Etymology: vex: to cause annoyance by minor irritations + irritating: chafe; aggravating

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COMMENTS:

artr Lol. I\'ve known a few Sams too. - artr, 2009-09-09: 12:21:00

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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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Idiosyncrazy

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: dry-vin-mee-NUTZ

Sentence: I swear, if Sheila develops one more friggin' idiosyncrazy involving unicorns, I am OUTTA there!

Etymology: idiosyncracy (little personal quirk) + crazy (not sane)

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Conpeeve

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: Con-Pee-Ve

Sentence: His combination of snoring and sleepwalking quickly went from cute to conpeeving after the fourth night of watching him snore walk his way into the wall.

Etymology: Con - Peeve (what used to be a propreeve is now a con)

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Irrimating

Created by: MrDigdigdig

Pronunciation:

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

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