Verboticism: Waronterrorlingus

'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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Pressureteasing

Created by: josje

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Threacite

Created by: Flixst

Pronunciation: θre'sǝit

Sentence: I can't find any motivation if there's not someone threaciting me.

Etymology: threat + incite

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Taskorize

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: task-or-ize

Sentence: Although Bob thought he had created a brilliant report, his boss called him to taskorize him to provide more details, or face yet another disappointing performance appraisal.

Etymology: task, terrorrize

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Influmenace

Created by: wysware

Pronunciation: in-flu-men-ace

Sentence: I'm not trying to influmenace you - but you will be very sorry if you don't do what i want.

Etymology: influence (motivate) menace (scare)

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Waronterrorlingus

Created by: Madamemojo

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Etymology: war+on+terror+lingus

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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.

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Throtivate

Created by: Wakkadude21

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Etymology: Threat + Motivate = Throtivate

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Nag

Created by: d3sire85

Pronunciation: Nahg

Sentence: My mom is always nagin at me to clean my room.

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Actorelse

Created by: mickey666

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Sentence: He would not do what was necessary so I decided I needed to actorelse.

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Coerce

Created by: seraphrevan

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