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.
My sexiest verb is also from Latin:
sollicito: to stir up, trouble, tease, seduce, arouse.
It’s a verb you use of raindrops on the surface of a lake or ocean—or the bubbles in fine champagne.
Shiver
Gyrate, although eviscerate is what first came to mind. Scary, huh?
consume
Whisper!
Whisper those smoldering sexy seductive sweet nothings in my ear 🙂
to UNDERSTAND
Smile!
There is nothing sexier than a smile. A stranger at the store smiles at you it makes them oh so attractive. Or a wonderful just between you and yours smile. Oh so SEXY! Purrrrr.
Yearn. or graze. I like my verbs subtle….
hes21….I should hope so!
Seductively I think is one of those sexy words.
It’s been suggested before, but I do like the word think. The brain is definitely the biggest sex organ, and I’ve always been attracted to very smart men.
I was also going to suggest gobsmacked because I love that word. The image I have is of the hero (for some reason I think it fits men more than women) whose world is totally knocked off its axis when he meets the heroine. Unfortunately, it’s an adjective, not a verb.
So, finally, my word is transcend, because love transcends the ordinary, transcends pain, transcends loneliness, and brings a touch of the transcendent to our lives.
Ancient Greek Verb- harpazo (to snatch, grab, seize). I think it just sounds sexy.
Also, related to it, the Latin verb rapio, rapere, rapui, raptus (to seize, snatch, tear away).
je t’aime-I Love You In French
Entwine.
Fingers entwine: through hair, with other fingers
Legs entwine: with other legs, around waists, shoulders, whatev
Tongues entwine anywhere they can.
It’s basically a very sexy verb!
Caress.
Because nobody caresses in a hurry, one always takes one’s time and savors a caress.
Throb, as in she’s she could feel herself throb with need. Oh man, you guys and all these sexy words, I’ll be throbbing with need here shortly 🙂
(note above last name, I think it fits perfectly with this post) hehehe
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amour
To love. The word just rolls off the tongue….as it should. 😀
to feel – works on many levels – feel the texture of the clothes, feel the emotion, feel the heat of his gaze…
also this is not a sexy “verb” – more amusing if anything: to diarise. It just sounds so awesomely wrong
Dare. Think of all the things you could be dared to do, or could dare to do on your own!
I just had a Dead Like Me flashback! The word on the show was “moist”. If you’ve never seen the show, definitely worth looking up. Back on topic, moist is not my sexy word. My word is touch. Such a useful word.
To savor.
Breathe.
It encompasses so much, is the start of many a kiss, a gasp, an indrawn breath, the cessation of movement (including breathing) during “le petit mort”, and the sound your loved one makes sleeping beside you.
Twinkle. Because it makes me smile.
Susurrate
LICK
Almost any verb in the Romance languages sounds sexy! 🙂 In English, I have to go with “stroke.”
to kiss
Smoldering – a gaze, a fire, whatever. Just conjures up sexy for me. 🙂
Touch. Pretty much sums it up.
I’m definately going to have to go with “pump, pumping, and/or pumped.” Oh, the visuals on that one are titallating.
I’m going to go with an Italian verb – lusingare – to tempt, lure, flatter
I love that word – it’s in a lot of opera arias, and is so beautiful-sounding.
My favorite has been “deshabiller,” which is French and missing an accent mark, for about 8 years thanks to a steamy little something I read using this verb as the foundation. It means “to undress.”
Hmm… “Verfuehren,” which is German for “to seduce”
(a very whispered-into-your-ear-in-a-dark-corner-behind-velvet-curtains kind of sounding word)
Lickkkkkkkk.
Another vore for caress.
I really like what others have suggested, especially “curl” and “writhe”… Mmmm!
But I have to admit that the first one that came to mind was “empanar” – “to wrap in bread” in Spanish. Haha, I guess that means it’s time for dinner?
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Heh. That makes me sound like I’m voting as a Lois McMaster Bujold fan. Okay, that works.
until I got old the sexiest verb was stroke, now it takes on a different meaning altogether but I’ll stick with stroke for this competition, lol.
cherish.
To know that my feelings, beliefs, needs are held in esteem and respected. It is a very sexy thing to know.
Exciter
It’s French for “to excite”, which makes sense but according to my college French professor it does NOT have the same connotations in French that it does in English. In English it can have innocent connotations but in French, it is apparently never an innocent word. Je désire un homme qui m’excite.
To Lave.