Verboticism: Spadookie

'I'll have to check with my security commander'

DEFINITION: n. A mother-in-law who lives with her married child and their spouse. v. To live with your mother-in-law.

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Spadookie

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: spuh-DUE-kee (spadookied)

Sentence: It seemed like the generous and humane thing to do when Rocky let his mom-in-law move in. Although he had completely refurbished the chicken coop out back and obtained a certificate of occupancy, "Mom" was somewhat less than pleased with her new accomodations and showed NO appreciation for the high-tech Japanese mulching toilet Rocky had installed at great expense. She turned out to be a real SPADOOKIE- a perpetually present ingrate with a pathological tendency to interfere and influence events out of all proportion to her real or imagined importance. Rocky had been SPADOOKIED and the only solution to his problem was to bequeath the house to "Mom" and move far, far away..... possibly to that cozy little cottage in Tierra Del Fuego.

Etymology: SPADulous+reDOOKIE=SPADOOKIE.....SPADULOUS: prone to inflict unfortunate or negative maternal influences,to live in a totalitarian martriarchy; Middle English spaedelis, derived from Latin spudolerous-"fatally wombed", akin to Lithuanian Spaedliski "beast mother" or Middle Basque Spaedaerisk "to loathe".....REDOOKIE :to dwell with or to be perpetually afflicted, to be doomed with certainty, to relish repeated blows to the head with a blunt object; origin uncertain- probably from Sanskrit RADOEUKEE "nailed to the floor" or a corruption of Patagonian Patois DOOKEESTERE "to surrender one's tools".

Points: 1100

Comments: Spadookie

metrohumanx - 2009-01-21: 14:49:00
I am striving to capture the five lowest rankings in the "weekly results"....please help me.

Jabberwocky - 2009-01-21: 16:11:00
woa - what an etymology!!

silveryaspen - 2009-01-21: 17:03:00
The etymology wasn't what I expected ... it was so much better!