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slumry commented on the word petrolsexual
Another word I excountered last week. A very young girl was sitting in a restaurant, alone, reading a book called "The Complete Petrosexual" while her mom got the pizza. Soon as I got home, I had to find out about the book. Turns out the subtitle is "A Handbook of Style for the Modern Dog." Sigh of relief.
Searched a bit further and found a reference to the word. Source said it was British, a combination of "petrol" and "sexual," modeled on metrosexual. First definition had to a do with a guy whose love object was his car; second definition was a woman who was "hotter than hot"--she is totally petrolsexual! Unfortunately, I've not been able to find the source again.
Can any one elucidate?
June 18, 2007
uselessness commented on the word petrolsexual
The word you've listed here has an L in it, but the word in the book title does not. The book has nothing to do with petrol, but (as one would expect) is a portmanteau of pet and metrosexual. Hence the dogs.
Not sure where the L came in -- it completely changes the word. Petrolsexual doesn't roll off the tongue as well as petrosexual but it's still a nice one; maybe I just like it because petrol is a much better word than gasoline. For what it's worth, I vote for the first definition you suggested. :-)
June 18, 2007