Verboticism: Enthreaten
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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Throtivate
Created by: Wakkadude21
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Threat + Motivate = Throtivate
Instimidate
Created by: asfaltboy
Pronunciation: een-stee-meed-ayte
Sentence: She instimidated me to clean the toilets or i'll go to hell.
Etymology: Install stimuli by intimidating.
Santaize
Created by: Pipeski
Pronunciation: Santa-ize
Sentence: Christmas is always a busy time for the telephone santaizer.
Etymology: Santa + Sanitize
Kindare
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kynd-dair
Sentence: She kindared her staff into thinking they would not be receiving their annual Christmas bonus unless they did something out of the ordinary. So, the creepy guy in the corner finally washed his hair, the office tart wore flat shoes for once and the heavy set girl stopped eating everything in sight.
Etymology: kind (gentle, docile, with love) + dare (threat, challenge, provoke)
Threativate
Created by: wniffene
Pronunciation: Thre-tee-vate
Sentence: Dude, my mom totally threativated me to mow the lawn.
Etymology: Threat+Motivate
Intiminag
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /in-'ti-m&-"nag/
Sentence: Aunt Petunia never figured out that her nephews just didn't enjoy brussel sprouts the way she did, and so her threats to not cook any came across more as intiminagging.
Etymology: from intimidate + nag
Malivate
Created by: TheGentleSherpa
Pronunciation: Mal-I-Vate
Sentence: Last sunday, the priest gave one of the most malivational sermons I'd ever heard.
Etymology:
Fibspire
Created by: BrakX
Pronunciation: fib-spi-er
Sentence: When we were kids our mom would fibspire us to clean our room by promising us she would kill the Easter Bunny
Etymology: to fib and inspire