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pompitous 

word invented and made famous by Steve Miller in song "The Joker" also misnomered as "Space Cowboy" that means - splendor, magnificence, suave pageantry
1. Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love

2. After years of lacking belief and complaining by the fair cubana, Jim and Dulce shared the pompitous of love and life when they finally got together on the wild west edge.
pompitous by jim christ October 6, 2008

pompatus 

In 1954, Vernon Green of the Medallions wrote a song called "The Letter" in which he used the words "puppetutes of love", a combination of "puppets" and "prostitutes". A puppetute was a woman of your fantasies who would do anything you wanted. Steve Miller, who sometimes imported words from other songs (including his own) into his lyrics, misheard the word as "pompitous" or "pompatus" and added "pompitous of love" and "pompatus of love" to his songs, "Enter Maurice" and "The Joker", respectively. The words were later used as a title to a movie, "The Pompatus of Love". "Enter Maurice" also uses the words "sweet words of epismetology" (close to an actual dictionary word, epistomology), which was probably a misheard version of another Green-invented word, "pizmotality", words so secret they can only be revealed to a lover.
"My dearest darling, come closer to Maurice so I can whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear and speak to you of the pompatus (pompitous) of love" (from "Enter Maurice", by Steve Miller)
pompatus by JohnJablong June 11, 2006

pompatus 

my fantasy lover, my everything

From the Medallions 1954 song "The Letter" and the Steve Miller 1973 song "The joker"

Also spelled puppetutes
I speak of the pompatus of love
pompatus by mandingo August 21, 2003

pomplamoose_ 

pomplamoose_ is the best person in the world they're so hot too‼️
omg you're friends with pomplamoose_ that's so cool😇
pomplamoose_ by pomplamoose_ June 24, 2021

pompitous 

It is that of love of which if you speak, some people will call you Maurice.

Used by Steve Miller and his band in the song "Enter Maurice," but most famously in the song "The Joker."
Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love.
pompitous by YBB April 24, 2004

Pomplemousse 

French for 'grapefruit', often used as a pejorative term for Mariah when she does something silly or mockable.
1: Hey!
2: Bonjour!
1: You're a pumpkinhead!
2: Bien sur? Donc, tu es une pomplemousse!
1: Qué?
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