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DEFINITION: v. To pretend that you adore someone's pet even though it is annoyingly stupid, bizarrely threatening, or just plain stinky. n. A alarming pet or companion, which nevertheless requires fawning.
Verboticisms
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Pantsdancer
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pantsdansər
Sentence: Frank's two best friends in the world, Rudy and Sally had a schnauzer that clearly was a child substitute. From the moment Frank entered the door until he left, their little angel was a pantsdancer. Rudy or Sally would ask, "Is he bothering you?" and Frank would politely respond "He's just happy to see me". What he really wanted to do was drop-kick the little fur-ball.
Etymology: Pants (trousers) + Dancer (a person who dances or whose profession is dancing)
Taipander
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Tahy-PAN-der
Sentence: Bob would do almost anything to slither up the corporate ladder to success; but when he, with open arms of alacrity, agreed to care permanently for his boss's pettiles, his toady taipander, taipandery and taipandering almost lead to a posthumous promotion.
Etymology: TAIPAN: (Oxyuranus scutellatus) Australia has 30 different kinds of venomous snakes. The largest and most poisonous of them is the taipan (tie-pan). It is in fact considered to be the most venomous snake in the world. The taipan was named by anthropolgist Donald Thompson after the word used by the Wik-Mungkan Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. & PANDER: yield (to); give satisfaction to [syn: gratify, grovel]
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COMMENTS:
Great word...venominous with some of the slithery corporate taips one meets! Happy New Year...Hope it eel be a krait one! - Nosila, 2009-01-01: 02:59:00
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Fakamour
Created by: kashman
Pronunciation: fay-ka-moore
Sentence: His act of fakamour at a friend's party resulted him having bunch of dogs to look after at the thanksgiving weekend.
Etymology: Fake (to decieve or give false appearance) + amour (meaning love).
Petronize
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: like "patronize" except with pet.
Sentence: Much to my chagrin, I had to petronize my neighbor as he showed off his slimy kingsnake
Etymology: Pet;Patronize
Pseudobeastiamity
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: sōō'-dō-běs'chē-ām'ĭ-tē
Sentence: "Like to pet my ferret?" Gill offerred. With a tight grin, Flora beastiamitously reached out and gave the musky polecat a stroke.
Etymology: pseudo, a combining form meaning “false,” “pretended,” “unreal,”; beast, nonhuman animal; amity, peaceful harmony; play on bestiality.
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-07: 07:23:00
Meaning full! Fits the definition superbly! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-07: 09:24:00
hmmm...maybe we have a mutual friend - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-07: 13:10:00
Good one, stache! - Jamagra, 2008-03-09: 11:14:00
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Arachnophonia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: uh - rak - nuh - FONE - ee - ya
Sentence: Maribell was deeply attracted to Gilbert but was terribly afraid of the spiders he kept in an aquarium and putting on her best face she resorted to arachniphonia to keep from letting Gilbert know she abhorred his 'pets'.
Etymology: Blend of arachnophobia and phony.
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COMMENTS:
very reptilerehensible! - galwaywegian, 2008-03-07: 06:54:00
A word that creeps into the mind and stays there! Extraordinary! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-07: 09:21:00
Maribell must have met Gilbert on the Web! You've spun a good word. - Nosila, 2008-03-07: 23:07:00
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Gloripetation
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: glow-ri-pe-tay-tion
Sentence: It took some gloripetatious backpedaling to convince her that I believed the cat was charming, although it was mangy and from what hair it did retain dangled dingle-berries.
Etymology: glorification+pet=gloripetation
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COMMENTS:
shoulda been gloripet in verb form, gerund is gloripetting. - queenjane75, 2008-03-07: 15:20:00
Unique creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-07: 22:26:00
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Ingrossiate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: in/gross/ee/ate
Sentence: Amy was so smitten with Jim that she ingrossiated herself with his pet snake to save the relationship.
Etymology: ingratiate (to establish oneself in the favour, or good graces of others) + grossed out
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COMMENTS:
sssssmitten was she? - galwaywegian, 2008-03-07: 06:55:00
Was it the human snake he had hidden in his pants! Your sentence is so sly and clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-07: 09:33:00
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-08: 21:06:00
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Pettison
Created by: bigveg
Pronunciation: pet-ison
Sentence: As soon as Jane had left the room, he pettisoned the snarling rat which was masquerading as a "hand-dog".
Etymology: pet, jettison
Pseudore
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: soo-dore
Sentence: Janice was overcome with pseudore when she met her boyfriends stupid, ugly pet chimpanzee. The only trick he had taught it was how to fling poo at strangers, but Janice was quite sure they did this on their own in the wild. She pretended to enjoy the trick, even though she was the victim.
Etymology: pseudo (fake) + adore (love)
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COMMENTS:
Sentence really grossed me out, as I'm sure you meant it to do! Thank goodness I can escape thru your pseudore! Word and etymology have lots of originality! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-07: 09:39:00
I love words that employ a silent p! - picabomama, 2008-03-08: 13:37:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird. Thank you yellowbird. ~ James
Tigger - 2008-03-07: 02:48:00
If I can post a YouTube link here, this one's pretty amusing, and relevant to this definition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq6NJ7kKEag
silveryaspen - 2009-01-01: 01:30:00
Song of the day is "Oh Deer, What can the matter be?"
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird. Thank you yellowbird. ~ James