Verboticism: Nag

'Santa won't come unless you clean up your desk!'

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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Aggromotivation

Created by: symemac

Pronunciation: a grow motivation

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Naginspirate

Created by: Lingoism

Pronunciation: Nagin spirate

Sentence: Harry totally naginpirated me to do the laundry so I could watch my favourite tv programme tonight.

Etymology: nag & inspirate

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Tovcandy

Created by: zagovorich

Pronunciation: tav'kendi

Sentence: To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats.

Etymology: Do it to have candy

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Tauntology

Created by: ArsMajika

Pronunciation: TAWN-taw-lo-JEE

Sentence: Mom guilted me into finishing my masters with Tauntology

Etymology: Taunt + Psychology

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Waronterrorlingus

Created by: Madamemojo

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Etymology: war+on+terror+lingus

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Mythreaten

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: Mith-thret-en

Sentence: Since it was Xmas eve, I mythreatened the children into eating their peas.

Etymology: Myth - a fictitious story, person or thing Threaten - to promise dire consequences unless a certain course of action is taken

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Naggathrut

Created by: polvicski

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Bossilating

Created by: torgo

Pronunciation: boss-uh-lating

Sentence: quit bossilating! i'm not a kid anymore!

Etymology: hmmm

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Supermotivationalize

Created by: Pappt002

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Whipspirate

Created by: Coolfool

Pronunciation: Whip + spirate as in inspirate.

Sentence: I could see that work wasn't progressing according to schedule, and a little whipspiration was in order.

Etymology: Whip: Common petty threat "I'll whip ya boy". And inspiration, to inspire to action. Doesn't really work as well as the real thing.

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