Verboticism: Flattertatter

'Wow, you're hot!'

DEFINITION: v. To reject a compliment. May indicate low self-esteem, or false modesty, or even a psychopathic aversion to flattery. n. A person who has difficulty accepting praise.

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Flattertatter

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: FLA-tur-ta-tur

Sentence: In a vain attempt to appear modest, Sue would always flattertatter any morsel of flattery sent her way; in reality, we all knew she was a compliment whore, looking to be reflatterized. (In the interest of a smaller sentence, I reverbotomized flattery.)

Etymology: flatter, tatter (to tear to shreds)

Points: 443

Comments: Flattertatter

wordmeister - 2007-01-19: 10:04:00
Good reverb!

purpleartichokes - 2007-01-19: 18:05:00
I was briefly proud of it, until I discovered I was a vocabuloser.

Sed8ed - 2007-01-19: 23:59:00
Tee hee!!