Verboticism: Amenaze
DEFINITION: v. To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats. n. A kind and gentle threat.
Amenaze
Created by: polarpanda
Pronunciation: ah-meh-naze
Sentence: I'd like to thank The Academy, of course, but also my mother; without her amenazing I never could have completed the screenplay for "I Cleaned My Desk, but Santa Never Came."
Etymology: From Spanish amenazar "to threaten" and English amaze.
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