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DEFINITION: n., A sulky look characterized by prolonged eye contact, which pets give their owners and/or spouses when they feel neglected. v., To stare at someone with a sad-eyed look in an effort to make them feel guilty.
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Guilteyzed
Created by: Chickp
Pronunciation: Guilt-eyezd
Sentence: My dog guiltized me through the front window as I walked away from the house
Etymology: guilt+eyed
Gulk
Created by: vixphilia
Pronunciation: Gulk.
Sentence: v.: Fido couldn't stop gulking at me when I arrived from my vacation. n.: My mom gives me her full-on gulk whenever I forget calling.
Etymology: Gulk: Guilt + Sulk
Eyecusation
Created by: tdhall56
Pronunciation: I kews a shun
Sentence: When I picked up my dog, Buddy, at the vets, he looked at me with eyecusation
Etymology: eye - eye/sight accuse/accusation
Critterseyes
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: critter/size
Sentence: Each day when she left for work her cat would critterseyes her from the tiny opening in the living room shutters.
Etymology: criticize + eyes + critter
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COMMENTS:
nice! - galwaywegian, 2008-09-18: 06:26:00
You have a crittercal eye! - Nosila, 2008-09-19: 01:47:00
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Errlepathy
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: 'er-'le-puh-the
Sentence: Kimberly was a critic of the idea of errlepathy until she saw a commercial about animal abuse. As if the Sarah McLachlan music wasn't enough, the eyes of the mistreated animals made her own eyes flow with tears as she reached for her phone and credit card.
Etymology: Blended: (1) err: mistake or wrongdoing + (2) telepathy: extrasensory transmission of messages
Tomoccule
Created by: Corebowe
Pronunciation: TOM;uck;yule
Sentence: n., "Having woken up late and gone straight to work without feeding my dog, I was greeted with a piercing tomoccule when I returned that evening." v. tr., "Michelle tomocculed her husband until he gave in and apologised."
Etymology: From latin 'tom' - to cut (LoboTOMy, AppendecTOMy, aTOM) and 'occulo', meaning eyes - roughly translated as 'to cut with eyes'
Melancollie
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (n.) měl'ən-kŏl'ē
Sentence: When I refuse to give in to Tilda's look of melancollie and give her a treat, she sulks in her doghouse all day.
Etymology: Melan- ("black", as in melancholy) + -collie ("One of a breed of dogs having a usually long, black, tan, and white or sable and white coat, raised originally in Scotland for herding sheep"; probably derived from "coaly" = "coal-black").
Glowergard
Created by: Kevcom
Pronunciation: gla-wer-garghd
Sentence: Old Jessie gave me a glowergard late last night after I forgot to change his water. Poor Jessie, he can't even try to be independent...
Etymology: glower + regard
Meglancecholy
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /meglænskəli/
Sentence: When I arrived home, my pet gave me one of those meglancholies, and I couldn't help to feel guilty about leaving it alone the whole afternoon...
Etymology: MEGLANCECHOLY. n. From Melancholy + Glance
Staretling
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: stay r tling
Sentence: The eye contact she found staretling
Etymology: startling, stare
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
remistram - 2007-10-22: 10:34:00
Came up with this one thanks to my sucky-baby cat.
Your pet inspiration! ~ James
ErWenn - 2007-10-22: 19:09:00
Petspiration? Nah, sounds a little too much like dog sweat.
Pet sweat? That smells like a good idea for a definition. I will put it on the list. Thanks ErWenn! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
galwaywegian - 2011-07-06: 04:33:00
staretling