Verboticism: Mommyism
DEFINITION: v. To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats. n. A kind and gentle threat.
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Philanthreaty
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: fill-anth-reh-tee
Sentence: Later, when he questioned his mother about her use of water boarding to encourage the children to revise for their exams, she steadfastly claimed it was philanthreaty, for their own good.
Etymology: philanthropy + threat
Intimanimate
Created by: arianell
Pronunciation: in-tuh-MA-nuh-mayt
Sentence: Sean's mother intimanimated him into finishing his homework by threatening to ban him from playing World of Warcraft on school nights.
Etymology: From the English "intimidate", meaning "to inspire or affect with fear", and the English "animate", meaning "to impart motion to".
Dreadtuate
Created by: attis
Pronunciation: Like it sounds
Sentence: Karen really new how to dreadtuate some activity out of Bob.
Etymology: Dread + actuate
Nag
Created by: d3sire85
Pronunciation: Nahg
Sentence: My mom is always nagin at me to clean my room.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
- d3sire85, 2006-12-19: 21:23:00
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Pinkmail
Created by: riflesandkids74
Pronunciation: pink-mayl
Sentence: My mother would often try to pinkmail me into cleaning my room. As I grew older i realized how empty her threats were and would often defy her.
Etymology: based on blackmail. pink replaces black as it is traditionally an unthreatening color.
Unfithreat
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: un'-fi-threat
Sentence: If you don't cure cancer, I won't do the dishes!
Etymology: unifit + threat as in the threat does not fit the required result.
Threatinspire
Created by: dkrider
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My boss tried to threatinspire me to work harder by revoking my bathroom privileges.
Etymology: threaten + inspire
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COMMENTS:
good sentence! - jrogan, 2006-12-19: 01:13:00
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Punishectomy
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: Pun-ish-ek-toe-me
Sentence: Punishectomy was used, when the child brought home poor grades.
Etymology: To threaten removal of anything of enjoyment.
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COMMENTS:
Good word and a bit scary sounding!!! - wordmeister, 2006-12-20: 09:57:00
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