Mar 132013
 

Woman Deciding What to WearSpringtrigue (noun, verb) \spring-treeg\ — Curios­ity as to whether tem­per­a­tures will be cool or warmd dur­ing the tran­si­tional period between win­ter and spring

Exam­ple: Mindy faced springtrigue every morn­ing as debated whether to wear hot pants or a snowsuit.

Can you use springtrigue in a sentence?

Mar 062013
 

Food BingingDieter’s Remorse (noun) \dayh-it-ers ri-mawrs\ — Deep and painful regret after con­sum­ing a high-calorie and/or fat­ten­ing food while on a diet.

Exam­ple: After wak­ing up admist an orgy of fast­food wrap­pers, Gin­ger rec­og­nized that her binge had nei­ther alle­vi­ated Tony’s fling with the meter maid nor kept her dieter’s remorse at bay.

Can you use dieter’s remorse in a sentence?

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Feb 202013
 

CouponsCoupone­sia (noun) \koo-pon-nee-zhuh\ — To momen­tar­ily for­get one has a coupon to use for an item one is pur­chas­ing, until after one leaves the store.

Exam­ple: Mindy com­pletely for­got she had a fifty-cents-off coupon with the pur­chase of 12 ene­mas until she got to the car with a baker’s dozen of Fleet products.

Can you use coupone­sia in a sentence?

Feb 132013
 

Vlad the ImpalerVladen­tine (noun) /vlad-uh n-tahyn/ — A lover who metaphor­i­cally stabs you in the heart just before or on Valentine’s Day, like Vlad the Impaler, upon whom Bram Stoker based Count Dracula.

Exam­ple: When Brett informed Tracy he was hav­ing an affair with her step-mother, he proved him­self to be a Vladentine–not a Valentine.

Can you use Vladen­tine in a sentence?

Jan 302013
 

Ledge JumperLedge Jumper Fat (noun) \lej juhm-per fat\ — The stub­born ring of body fat that remains pressed tightly around one’s mid­dle, like  a ledge jumper, no mat­ter how  much one diets or exercises.

Exam­ple: After twelve weeks, Joey refused to pose for a shirt­less “after” photo, as his ledge jumper fat still stub­bornly clung hold of his middle.

Can you use ledge jumper fat in a sentence?

Jan 092013
 

Lounge LizardFoo­los­o­phy (noun) \fool-los-uh-fee\ — A hare-brained set of truths or belief system.

Exam­ple: Chuck believed expos­ing the right per­cent­age of chest hair and ask­ing if she had lost wait would always per­suade a woman to do any­thing he asked.

Can you use foo­los­o­phy in a sentence?

Jan 022013
 

Man with Extremely Colored HairDye-Hard (noun) \dahy-harhd\ — A man who unknow­ingly begins to use hair color in an extreme way.

Exam­ple: When Bob left the office before the hol­i­days, Melody con­sid­ered him a sil­ver fox, due to his gray­ing hair; how­ever, when he returned after New Year’s after a bad Just for Men job and resem­bled a guido, she began refer­ring to him as the dye-hard.

Can you use dye-hard in a sentence?