Verboticism: Throtivate
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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Darkmutter
Created by: msokoloffster
Pronunciation: Dark - Mut - er
Sentence: My boss does darkmutter when he sees me slacking off.
Etymology: Unknown...
Deprimatum
Created by: verbinator
Pronunciation: de-pri-may-tuhm
Sentence: John avoided yard work until his wife uttered a sexual deprimatum.
Etymology: deprive + ultimatum
Pettiwet
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: pet-tee-wet
Sentence: Andrea knew her team would never meet the deadline unless they worked all night, so she pettiwet them with death. It worked.
Etymology: petit or petty + threat but wet
Verbusality
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: Ver-bu-salasity
Sentence: She used her favorite verbusality to get her kid to do her bidding.
Etymology: verbal-abuse
Philanthreaty
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: fill-anth-reh-tee
Sentence: Later, when he questioned his mother about her use of water boarding to encourage the children to revise for their exams, she steadfastly claimed it was philanthreaty, for their own good.
Etymology: philanthropy + threat
Intimispire
Created by: librarygrrrl
Pronunciation: in-TIM-i-spire
Sentence: Before letting me go out for the night, Mom intimispired me about my messy room.
Etymology: intimidate + inspire
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)