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DEFINITION: n. A person in deep denial who crams into their old clothing which is now somewhat unflattering, and perhaps several sizes too small. v. To wear clothing from your "younger days" just to prove that you still got it.
Verboticisms
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Retrohmygod
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: rett row maii gohd
Sentence: The retrohmygod look provoked a major stir on the beach, much further north than had been intended.
Etymology: retro, oh my God
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COMMENTS:
great laugh as always - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-11: 13:41:00
Quite similar to shabby chic. Excellent word. - Mustang, 2009-05-11: 21:14:00
Flabulous! With that initial labelling of retro followed immediately by the double take reaction to the appearance. - dochanne, 2009-05-11: 21:57:00
I LOL! Such a great word! Kudos to you~ You've got my vote! Loved it :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-05-14: 11:17:00
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Retrohoh
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: rhett oh oh
Sentence: the sixties hotpants look had gone from retro to retrohoh in the intervening years
Etymology: retro ohoh
Prunetta
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: proon-ETT-eh
Sentence: Jeanetta was well past mid life but convinced she still looked good in revealing clothes, and the poor thing had no idea that friends referred to her as prunetta because of all the sags, wrinkles and cellulite that gave her a prune like appearance.
Etymology: Blend of prune and a feminine name ending in 'etta'.
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COMMENTS:
Sadly she's not alone...beaches everywhere have seen her! Good Word - Nosila, 2009-05-11: 17:59:00
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Shuizeld
Created by: flameymarshey
Pronunciation: (Shu-weez-ulld_
Sentence: "Honey, are you still schuziled??"
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
YOY - flameymarshey, 2018-09-30: 15:12:00
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Ripvanwrinkle
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rip van rin kel
Sentence: When Maisie showed up in the bikini she had worn more successfully forty years ago, she looked like a real ripvanwrinkle. Her skin looked like the surface of the moon and it was painfully obvious she had lost the fight against gravity here on earth. The poor bikini fought to enclose her Dead Sea rolls.
Etymology: Rip Van Winkle (fairy tale character who slept through his life;person who is oblivious to social changes) & Wrinkle (creases and folds in the skin due to aging and loss of elasticity)
Cramolded
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: cra-mol-did
Sentence: Marvin says to Anne, "Honey, you know you should not cramolded that old bikini on your body...it accentuates your extra curves and lines."
Etymology: Cram-To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff. Old- and added (ed) - Having lived or existed for a relatively long time; far advanced in years or life.
Fashiononsense
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: fa-shen-non-cents
Sentence: Grandma's fashiononsense often times found her in acid wash jeans which were too snug.
Etymology:
Bikinitini
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: beek eenee teenee
Sentence: When Ethel tried on her very old swimsuit, her husband Ed called it her bikinitini. Oh sure it still covered the most important parts, but two of those parts were now thumping against her knees as she walked and her backside in motion looked like a camel chewing on a caramel!
Etymology: Bikini (two piece skimpy swimsuit) & Teenie (very tiny)
Crammedma
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: crammed/ma
Sentence: Her crammedma and crammeddad came to visit both wearing clothes several sizes too small.
Etymology: cram + Grandma
Decrebuttude
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: De-cre-butt-yood
Sentence: Warren nearly had a heart attack when his wife Mabel decided to be a sprungchicken for their summer holiday. Yes, she still fitted that old bikini but it sure was some decrebuttude on her part to wear that in public!
Etymology: Decrepitude - the effects of senescence and gravity on all things fleshy; Rebut - deny or argue against; Butt - one of the first things to be affected by decrepitude and crammed into some Cleopantstrappy (neologism: Cleopatra Queen of De Nial, pants, straps as usu items that decrepitous bodies are crammed into) thing it really shouldn't be; Attitude - showing off, denial, in-your-face, you-got-a-problem-with-that?!; also Rebutt - neologism - re-presentation or make-over of one's butt.
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COMMENTS:
When you speak of Denial, you don't mean deriver do you ... - emdeejay, 2009-05-11: 03:22:00
Nien :P - dochanne, 2009-05-12: 05:18:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx Thank you metrohumanx ~ James
abrakadeborah - 2009-05-11: 03:46:00
I loved making up this word & sentence/story...Metro! YOU ARE GRRRREAT and the cartoon made me LAUGH so hard! Thanks! I needed that ~ STILL LOL! :)
Hey abrakadeborah, Thank you for the winkles and crinkles. Our verbotomists are certainly putting on their most creative verbdrobes today. And everyone is wearing their words well. ~ James
And in other news, Jabberwocky has won our Dylan Verbotomies Contest with the top score last week. I will post the official announcement later today in the blog. Congrats to Jabberwocky ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James