Verboticism: Heiferafter
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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Paramooer
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: para moo er
Sentence: Elsie was just in the mooed to find a new paramooer. So she went with her bff, Bessie to a meat market...you know the kind of place we mean. Where the goods were well hung, the cowcktails affordabull and there was poll dancing. Their only prospects were a couple of shorthorns who were both Taurus and could be herd from far away. As usual the girls struck out, because the rodeo was in town and the beefcake drank elsewhere.
Etymology: Paramour (a woman's lover;a woman who cohabits with an important man) & Mooer (a cow, who moos)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant! - galwaywegian, 2010-08-25: 04:28:00
I am glad it mooved you! - Nosila, 2010-08-26: 23:48:00
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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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Scornicated
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: skôrnikāted
Sentence: After his blind date fell through — some lame excuse about a car accident and coma — Tim decided to see if he could get some action at the new bar in town. As he entered he thought to himself ”My lucky night. Must be lady’s night, the place is full of chicks”. As he made his way around the bar every eye seemed to follow him as well as a mood of disgust. Finally he left the Silver Beaver without scoring but feeling scornicated.
Etymology: scorn (feel or express contempt or derision for) + fornicate (sexual intercourse between non-married partners)
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COMMENTS:
Silver Beaver...Dam! - Nosila, 2010-08-25: 22:08:00
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Loserchooser
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: lew - sur - chooz - ur
Sentence: Margie was starting to think of herself as a loserchooser. Over and over, she would have a magical evening where she thought she had met the person of her dreams. Pretty quickly she would realize that he was a total loser.
Etymology: Loser + Chooser >> Loser (One that is bad in quality) Chooser (picker: a person who chooses or selects out)
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COMMENTS:
rolls right off the tongue, meaning apparent, memorable, might fine rhymetime verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 11:39:00
funny! - splendiction, 2009-02-11: 16:01:00
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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
Loveprowlerr
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: luvprowler
Sentence: Mimi wiggled her pink nose. She immediately recognized Ted as the loveprowlerr he had become; he could only bear to skulk the outer regions of the woods in which bearly any of his kind still lived. Ted habitually came down and out onto the meadow every day, loveprowlerring for fearful creatures he mistakenly grew fond feelings for. Mimi trembled, keeping close to her log home, as she watched Ted tilt his head in earnest regard her. (Would she be his lover or his dinner?)!
Etymology: loveprowlerr n. From the words prowl, lover and err. It means one who prowls, instintively searches (not knowing why) for love but errs, make errors of judgement.
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)
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Maidenchoice
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: mādnchois
Sentence: Joice always seems to make the maidenchoice. She always seems to make decisions that keep her from meeting guys. Whether it's where she lives, between two retirement communities or her job in the morgue, she rarely finds herself in a position to meet anyone datable. The last handsome young man she saw in person was very cold, laying on a stainless steel table. The ugly hole in his head was a major deterrent to a night on the town.
Etymology: maiden (a girl or young woman, esp. an unmarried one) + choice (an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities)
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COMMENTS:
Does that mean that all the young women who live on Maiden Choice Lane won't find suiters? - otherguy, 2009-02-11: 07:28:00
or suitors... :-) - wayoffcenter, 2009-02-11: 07:59:00
Yes she's in a job where there is stiff competition to find a live one...especially with that co-worker of hers, Myra Mains! - Nosila, 2009-02-12: 00:39:00
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Amourid
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: a/mour/id
Sentence: Joe's love life has become an amourid situation because he cruises all night diners and old age homes for "the one".
Etymology: AMOURID - from AMOUR (love, romance) + ARID (barren or unproductive)
Romanthick
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: row man ts ihk
Sentence: Henry o' Tosis was such a romanthick, he couldn't score at a wallpaperer's convention. His chat-up lines had filled many emergency rooms with suspected vomiting epidemics. His lack of success with the fairer sex was always a mystery and a torment to his mother, with whom he lived. She would often scold him angrily, while swiping wildly about the room with her white stick.
Etymology: romantic , thick as in stupid
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COMMENTS:
poor Henry - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-11: 10:41:00
sticking in through romanthin and romanthick! Love the play on Henry for Hal O' Tosis. Kudos for being most crafty! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-11: 12:08:00
the wallpaper convention is certainly thick with sticky romance I bet! - mweinmann, 2009-02-12: 09:13:00
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