Verboticism: Intimanimate
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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Santaize
Created by: Pipeski
Pronunciation: Santa-ize
Sentence: Christmas is always a busy time for the telephone santaizer.
Etymology: Santa + Sanitize
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.
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.
Altrumatum
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: l tru may tum
Sentence: The liberals continue to deliver strong altrumatums to the White House.
Etymology: altrumism + ultimatum
Actorelse
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He would not do what was necessary so I decided I needed to actorelse.
Etymology:
Intimimake
Created by: bungle
Pronunciation: in-tim-i-make
Sentence: I'll intimimake him into giving to charity by threatening to kill his dog
Etymology: intimidate + make
Motiberate
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation: moh-tuh-bi-reyt
Sentence: She had to resort to sordid motiberating when he stopped taking baths.
Etymology: motivate + berate
Hairipcajolist
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: Hair-ripca-jole-ist
Sentence: Your hairpcajolist ways won't get you anywhere, missy.
Etymology: hair-rip-cajole
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- Hjason, 2006-12-19: 13:38:00
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Threativational
Created by: microwavedboy
Pronunciation: Threat-i-va-shun-al
Sentence: My mother and her endless threativational speeches kept my room, heart, and mind clean.
Etymology: I really can foresee threativational posters on people's cubicle walls in the future.
Insprite
Created by: degsy99
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She insprited cleanliness throughout the office with her cajoling and minor threats.
Etymology: Combination of inspire, incite and threat.