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DEFINITION: n. An extremely intimate, but completely innocent, relationship with an online "partner". v. To be virtually unfaithful while strictly maintaining physical loyalty.
Verboticisms
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Dysphuriation
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: dis-FYOOR-ee-EY-shuhn
Sentence: Gerald could not contain his dysphuriation, which was clearly harder on him than either Janet or Carl, the landscaper.
Etymology: dysphoria + infuriation
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COMMENTS:
Janet was into whoreticulture. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 08:55:00
Gerald was a mite angry, but Carl probably has a spray for that. Janet declared she was just being environmentally friendly. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:03:00
Carl was a seedy character, having had affairs with Rose, Daisy, and Lily as well. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-01: 09:19:00
sounds like a thHorny problem - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 12:30:00
Yes, but Gerald rose to the occasion. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 13:54:00
Damn, "rose" had already been used. I'll try again. It wasn't the first time Janet had been deflowered. Gerald fell into a vegetative state, preventing him from getting to the root of the problem. Tree times was fir too many. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 14:05:00
Perhaps Janet felt that Gerald had been spending too much thyme with Rosemary and as he hadn't been wearing his foxglove he had developed a problem with his peonies - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 15:35:00
Whereas Janet's gardenia belt left her feverbush exposed, making Carl's horse cane extremely gladiola, until his stamen peeked out from under his monkshood and he began pollen on his periwinkle. Fertilization was fine, but there was no possumhaw that he could marigold that witch-hazel and become a poppie, carting the orchids around to daisy care. Some called him a pansy, but many problems stemmed from his disinterest in cultivating a family and branching out. He wished everyone would just leaf him alone so he could smoke weed and listen to the Sex Pistils. Maple it was for the best. He'd rather bee with Jasmine, to chestnut on her pod and turn out the nightshade. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 18:35:00
too funny - I'm splitpeaing myself with laughter!! - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 20:10:00
Clayton, you sure have some stamena for pROSE. Freesia jolly good fellow, and sow say all of us. - petaj, 2007-06-02: 23:34:00
Ha ha! LOVE it! - Clayton, 2007-06-04: 06:18:00
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Jealisle
Created by: Megsee
Pronunciation: gel - isle (sounds like while)
Sentence: The sight of her lover crooning a love song into his blackberry made her feel as though she might vomit, though nothing was in her stomach she felt jealisle.
Etymology:
Trystual
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: trist-u-al
Sentence: Laura's trystual relationship was becoming more exciting than the real one she had with her husband, and she began to spend more and more time online. Her husband began to suspect that she might be having a virtual affair the night she called and said she'd be working late and wouldn't be home for supper, especially because she worked from home and the call came from her upstairs office.
Etymology: tryst: an agreement between lovers to meet at a certain place or time + virtual: existing in essence though not in fact
Emoflux
Created by: evthalia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His emotions uncontrollably and rapidly changed like waves crashing to shore.
Etymology: emotion + fluctuation
Avatarrangement
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: av - ah - tar - ranj - ment
Sentence: Lucy had an avatarrangement with Benjamin; her virtual friend on "My Other World" where her character looked nothing like herself. Because she was having an intimate relationship with her avatar and not her "real" self, she felt innocent and did not understand why her husband was upset.
Etymology: avatar, arrangement
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COMMENTS:
avatariffic word - Nosila, 2009-12-28: 22:19:00
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Killherinstinct
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kill-hur-in-stinkt
Sentence: Seeing them together for the first time, she was overcome with killherinstinct. Fortunately, she easily got herself under control, as she had another hot date lined up for the evening.
Etymology: killer instinct, her
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COMMENTS:
lethal! - galwaywegian, 2007-06-01: 06:31:00
It was fortunate, otherwise there would have been a murdher investigation. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 08:39:00
If she had first thought to khilim, she could have consoled herself with a beautiful Persian carpet. - petaj, 2007-06-01: 09:21:00
great word Purple and brilliant comments from all - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-01: 09:30:00
Yes, yes. Best word by a mile. - Clayton, 2007-06-01: 13:52:00
As always, well done purple. - Osomatic, 2007-06-01: 16:22:00
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Insufferation
Created by: livejuicy
Pronunciation: in-suff-er-a-shun
Sentence: When he saw them embrace, he could only exclaim in insufferation - "What's going on?"
Etymology: insufferable + desolation
Enamorage
Created by: renzeb
Pronunciation: Ee-na-mohr-ij
Sentence:
Etymology: Enamor + Rage
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Clayton. Thank you Clayton! ~ James
Clayton, this definition has prompted some inspired commenting.
Yes! You guys are so funny, I can hardly wait to read the book. ~ James
Clayton - 2007-06-01: 13:56:00
Heh. It seems like we've all been there. Fortunately, it's been several years for me.
I have made a couple of changes today. First, I have changed the way the Verboticisms are displayed so that now it shows the words from every Verbroom. I have also added a "Show All" link which lists all the verboticims of the day on a single page! Secondly I have added a comment tracking system so you can track all your conversations. If these changes cause a problem, let me know! ~ James
Thank you for the show all. I was thinking about the "tag cloud" idea. It would work well on the author pages, where the weighting for each word could be displayed by relative size of font. Then we could check out our best scoring words, and it wouldn't interfere with voting. Tracking conversations is a neat idea too. Are all the comments from every word in the one "track" or would we have to track each one individuall?
Today's definition was suggested by Clayton. Thank you Clayton. ~ James