Verboticism: Whitemail
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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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
Catholiquead
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation: Cathola/queed
Sentence: My boss catholiqueaded me not only into staying late and finishing the project, but taking some extra work home on the weekend.
Etymology: From a combination of catholic guilt, critique, and lead.
Prostasize
Created by: MarilynMonRobot
Pronunciation: Pra-Sta-Size
Sentence: While trying to get my husband to donate to "Toys for Tots" I had to prostasize his idea of laying on the couch by telling him "I might not be able to get you your new paintball gun after all..."
Etymology: Prostate - Male Body Part + Size - To cease/rip off
Threatspiration
Created by: fmgene
Pronunciation: threat -spir- ation
Sentence: I've been threatspired into volunteering at the local shelter
Etymology: threat + inspiration
Crapavate
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: CRAP-a-vayt
Sentence: And then she starts her crapavational spiel about why I should clean my room....
Etymology: crap - faecal matter; nonsense "vate" - from "motivate"
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
Subspire
Created by: ancientSept
Pronunciation: sub-spy-ur
Sentence: She supspired Johnny to do his homework.
Etymology: sub - meh. spire- took it off of inspire.
Parentology
Created by: Nairock
Pronunciation: pair-ren-TALL-oh-gee
Sentence: Her children always do what she says due to her mastery of parentologistic threats.
Etymology:
