Verboticism: Insprite
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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Fauxerce
Created by: DarthWader
Pronunciation: foh ers
Sentence: In exasperation, Nancy began to fauxerce her children, "If you don't start picking up those toys by the count of three, I'm selling your bodies to research. One... Two... Three... Harry! Get the Escalade!"
Etymology: faux (fake) + coerce (persuade by using force or threats)
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
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
Intimotivation
Created by: Bellman
Pronunciation: In-ti-moat-i-vay-shun
Sentence: "Well, I'd better go out amongst the ranks and spread some intimotivation."
Etymology: From 'intimidate' and 'motivation'.
Lametheativation
Created by: wiccanfey
Pronunciation: Lame-threat-ta-vay-tion
Sentence: Molly always used the lametheativation that if Rudolph didn't eat his carrots his nose would turn black.
Etymology: Lame, threat, motivation
Admonage
Created by: phanson
Pronunciation: add - monn - adge
Sentence: My mother used to admonage me to clean my room, by threatening to cut of my limbs if I did not
Etymology: Encouragement, Admonish
Hitleristic
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: " Hit-ler-is-tick"
Sentence: When I asked for a BMW for my birthday, my dad got all hitleristic on me, and said I couldn't get it until I ate all my soy beans.
Etymology: the history behind this word is unknown, most feel it comes from one behaving like a psychotic dictator asshole in order to get something done.
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.
Sacrotort
Created by: camel
Pronunciation: Sack-row-tort
Sentence: We'd sacrotort the poor fellow into cleaning our leather jackets after nights of Crisco twister with the scare of using him as our leather underpants.
Etymology: Sacro (holy), extortion
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COMMENTS:
clever! - jrogan, 2006-12-19: 02:34:00
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Santabag
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: san ta bag
Sentence: Merry knew that the only way to persuade her son, Nicholas into cleaning up his room for Christmas was to santabag him. She told him things like that he'd get no new toys if Santa thought he had no room for them or a new teddy bear would refuse to live in such squalor. It worked and he cleaned up his room! Too bad she could not santabag the rest of the year.
Etymology: Santa (Christmas Jolly Old Elf) & Bag (an activity that you like or at which you are superior); Wordplay on Sandbag (compel by coercion, threats, or crude means;downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive)