Verboticism: Antagonate
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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Threativate
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: Thre-tee-vate
Sentence: Dude, my mom totally threativated me to mow the lawn.
Etymology: Threat+Motivate
Manipulavation
Created by: aly22
Pronunciation: man ni pu la vation man ni pu la vate
Sentence: In order to manipulavate the kids into washing up the dinner dishes, she told them Santa was watching.
Etymology: manipulate + motivation
Follygraphed
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: Fol-ee-graft
Sentence: I follygraphed when I convinced my co-worker that if he xeroxed a huge stack of papers, he'd get promoted to CEO.
Etymology: Folly + polygraph
Molaspasm
Created by: Taami
Pronunciation:
Sentence: c'mon clean up your room, you don't want a molaspasm do you.
Etymology:
Negivate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: neg/i/vate
Sentence: With the use of browbeating , a loud voice and threats, my boss can negivate any employee.
Etymology: negative + motivate
Hitleristic
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: " Hit-ler-is-tick"
Sentence: When I asked for a BMW for my birthday, my dad got all hitleristic on me, and said I couldn't get it until I ate all my soy beans.
Etymology: the history behind this word is unknown, most feel it comes from one behaving like a psychotic dictator asshole in order to get something done.
Hypoquenses
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: High - po - quin - sis
Sentence: In order to get my husband off the couch, I came up with some hypoqenses.
Etymology: Hypothetical Consequences
Threativate
Created by: chrisk2k7
Pronunciation: Thre-tee-vate
Sentence: Dude, my mom totally threativated me to mow the lawn.
Etymology: Threat+Motivate
Threativate
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: Thre-tee-vate
Sentence: Dude, my mom totally threativated me to mow the lawn.
Etymology: Threat+Motivate