Here’s a little something new and different. To celebrate the release of “Faking It,” by Elisa Lorello, I’ve got my totally-craving-spring hands on a giveaway for you: flower delivery service California Blooms is donating 1 dozen roses to a Smart Bitches, Trashy Books reader located in the continental U.S. The winner will also get a free copy of FAKING IT! If you win, you can have the flowers and book sent to yourself (who doesn’t want a dozen roses and hot read delivered to her door?) or someone you love.
Faking It by Elisa Lorella is about Andi, a composition and rhetoric professor, who breaks off her engagement and moves home to Long Island to start her life and career over. Then she meets Devin, a male escort whose client list seems to include at least half of the accomplished women she knows. Devin is totally handsome and charming (and quite out of her league) but Andi senses something underneath his sexy exterior that fascinates her. So she proposes a “teaching” arrangement: each of them will educate the other in what they know best. Devin will teach Andi to be a better lover, and she’ll teach him to be a writer.
That’s right, it’s all about conjugation up in here. Awwww yeah.
Yes, this giveaway is US only (sorry about that – if I could send flowers to you wherever you are, I totally would, unless you live in one of those luscious tropical countries with flowers all over the place and would look at one more bloom as a reason to screech). All you have to do is leave a comment with what you think is the sexiest verb (in any language), and you’re entered to win. Comments will be open for 48 hours, and standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. I really like flowers. No animals were disturbed in the writing of this entry. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear (and may also be bigger, too – woo!) Yes, verbs totally are sexy. They are the sexytimes of the parts of speech.
Melt
Give.
Physically.
Emotionally.
Of your time.
Of your shoulder to cry on.
Of a sympathetic ear.
Just…give.
I have to go with Michaelene – curl is the one that came to my mind.
Arouse.
Sexiest Verb Ever=
IMAGINE
Without it…all these romance novels we love would just be words on paper.
And I really can’t imagine anything sexier than a partner with a huge *ahem* imagination.
tease
Adore
Lust…
Best verb – for him – understand
For her – enjoy
Seems the best chapters have both.
“Look” is probably the sexiest verb. It can be used to describe where someone looked, how they looked, or where they were looking to see the hero or heroine. Simple, useful, and can be used in so many way.
I’m not eligible for the prize, but I still want to put a vote in for liefkoos, it is Afrikaans for caress. What I really like about it though is that the root of the word, lief, means love. So it implies a lot while describing the action.
Oooh, Rumple.
Seducir
Spanish for “to seduce” – whisper this slowly to your lover. Lover doesn’t need to understand Spanish to get worked up.
To notice. “He noticed how her gaze always came to rest upon his face.” I love the particular level of attention it conveys.
Blame it on me being a product of the computer age, but the verb I think is pretty darn awesome is…. <3
I have to agree with Nadia that it’s “vaccuum”.
(I’m also now thinking of The Frantics’ sketch “Dirty Words”.)
Hmm…sexiest verb.
Not going to say “lave” (LOL—one of my least favorite romance book verbs!)
How about “adore”?
Tantalize – to torment with, or as if with, the sight of something desired but out of reach; tease by arousing expectations that are repeatedly disappointed.
Bésame. Kiss me.
“Caress”………… mmmmmmmm.
to pleasure
Whisper. When done right…yeah.
to desire
Sevish= to love in Uzbek!
Tousle. Brings up thoughts of the morning after.
Also like the word snuggle.
Sexiest verb? Cook.
Murmur. I’ve always loved that word.
I don’t remember ever agreeing with Virginia Llorca before but melt is pretty damn good.
My word is justice35 – justice is sexy but not the absolute sexiest.
Swish, and I’m not sure that I could explain why I find that such a sexy word.
Definitely BACIAMI (“kiss me” in Italian). My Italian husband taught me that word and I put it to good use!!
to spar (in the verbal sense)
it’s all about the words baby
Amare
To love is super sexy, but say it in Italian…
HOTT.
met, see also meet
They met for the first time.
Their eyes met across the room.
It was wonderful meeting up again.
Suddenly his lips met hers.
etc
I like “linger” a lot. A lingering gaze, lingering touch, lingering kiss. All sexy (or potentially so).
It seems all the good options are being taken.
Hey…
“to take”.
Eh?
caress
“Crave.” There’s such an erotic underpinning to that term … at least, in my mind!
Shiver.
It can lead into a warm jacket or arm about your shoulders, or it can be a reaction to warm words whispered in your ear. Shiver.
I vote for “writhe”
I’ve always been partial to vouloir, to want in french.