Vote for the best verboticism.

'Oh please stay! And don't worry about Robbie. '

DEFINITION: n. The sense of discomfort created when "a couple" says you are welcome to stay, even though their behavior suggests that you are getting in the way. v. To sit uncomfortably between two lovers.

Create | Read

Verboticisms

Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...

You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.

Threedundancy

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: three/dun/dans/ee

Sentence: He felt an acute sense of threedundancy when his hosts both nodded off at the table just before dessert

Etymology: three + redundancy

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

threemenduous - galwaywegian, 2007-05-31: 07:00:00

threeling and heartstopping, it is! - jadenguy, 2007-05-31: 10:09:00

I love that one - w5lf9s, 2007-05-31: 15:29:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Wedgehog

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: wej-hawg

Sentence: Joe couldn't completely understand why his friend Rob's mother had invited him over for dinner when she and her husband were planning a night at the movies. After they left and Rob's girlfriend showed up he understood his role as a wedgehog.

Etymology: wedge (something that serves to part, split, divide) + hedgehog ( an obstructive device consisting of steel bars, angle irons, etc., usually embedded in concrete, designed to damage and impede the boats and tanks of a landing force on a beach)

| Comments and Points

Invitationitis

Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: in va tay shun eye tis

Sentence: He had the distinct feeling of invitationitis when the kissing started.

Etymology: invitation - asked to come/stay itis - illness

| Comments and Points

Twoscompunease

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: tooz-cump-un-eez

Sentence: as he went to the cupboard to get me a pillow and a blanket, she disappeared into their bedroom carrying what looked like whipped cream, handcuffs and a videocamera, leaving me with a growing sense of twoscompunease

Etymology: two's company [three's a crowd], unease

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Wow! Good one! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-31: 04:39:00

petaj freezeoutcrowd - petaj, 2007-05-31: 04:47:00

you get my vote on this rikboyee - very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-31: 12:01:00

now you have me googling song lyrics for cheesy 70's sitcoms! that, my friend, is the true mark of success. also, 70s sitcom lyrics are like kevin bacon, every topic eventually lands on them. - jadenguy, 2007-05-31: 17:17:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Menaceatrois

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: men ass a twa

Sentence: It was difficult for Joe to have his mother-in-law come for one of her long, unannounced visits. She would sit between them on the couch and nooky was out of the question as the walls were paper-thin. Their relationship always grew strained when she visited, as it was a menaceatrois.

Etymology: Menace (threat) & Menage A Trois (French: a threesome;household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations)

| Comments and Points

Affectionalicky

Created by: bubbos

Pronunciation: Affec-tion-al-icky

Sentence: This public display of affectionalicky makes me feel uneasy.

Etymology: Affection + icky

| Comments and Points

Gawkward

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: gok ward

Sentence: When Robbie visits June, he's all over her. Even though Joe came to see her first, Robbie buts in amorously. It is a gawkward moment for Joe...like a car crash, he does not want to see, but cannot look away as they go at it. This is particularly difficult since June is actually Joe's wife...

Etymology: Gawk (an awkward stupid person;look with amazement; stare stupidly)& Awkward (not at ease socially;causing pain or embarrassment)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Made me chuckle. :) - Discoveria, 2012-09-29: 08:19:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Threesacrowditis

Created by: frosteefire

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Thirdwheelui

gdread

Created by: gdread

Pronunciation: third-WHEEL-oo-ee

Sentence: In the middle of my conversation with Annette, Robbie started playing with her hair and rubbing her inner thigh, which suffused me with a sense of thirdwheelui that lifted me from my chair and propelled me out the door with, "Well, look at the time, gotta go, bye."

Etymology: third wheel + ennui

| Comments and Points

Lefout

Created by: mizzverbz

Pronunciation: lef-owt

Sentence: Show me the way you came in and i'll help you lefout.

Etymology: guyanse dialect mixed with old guyanese saying

| Comments and Points

Show All or More...

 

Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-31: 01:11:00
Today's definition was suggested by suzanne. Thank you suzanne! ~ James

texmom - 2007-05-31: 21:41:00
I enjoyed thinking of this one! And isn't it the truth!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2011-05-05: 00:03:00
Today's definition was suggested by suzanne. Thank you suzanne. ~ James