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DEFINITION: To habitually blame others for problems, which you not only created, but also helped to foster and develop.
Verboticisms
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Yuckpass
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: YUK-pass
Sentence: Jim's yuckpassing angered his co-workers, but earned him several promotions as the least objectionable candidate.
Etymology: From pass the buck, via Yuck!
Whomeopathy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: hu/mee/op/a/th/ee
Sentence: Whomeopathy is the ancient practice of passing the blame onto unsuspecting recipients. It requires extensive education and several degrees to practice it effectively.
Etymology: who me? and homeopathy
Replame
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Re-plame
Sentence: I am such a replame master, I so got away with losing my mom's wedding ring. I feel kinda bad for my brother...
Etymology: Replace + blame
Defectory
Created by: warped
Pronunciation: de/fec/to/ry (phonetic)
Sentence: Phil is a master of defectory, he's always passing the blame on to someone else.
Etymology: Root word is defect, which has two meanings in this case: a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection, OR to desert a cause, country, etc., esp. in order to adopt another
Potatobomb
Created by: bjorn
Pronunciation: potato-bomb
Sentence: Roy loved nothing more than to potatobomb the rest of his team with the disasters he caused.
Etymology: hot potato + bomb
Tuquoquetate
Created by: Trivigo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: In an attempt to shift blame to others, the students began to tuquoquetate as soon as the evidence of their cheating was presented.
Etymology:
Silentfartosis
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The smell was unbearable. As his wife looked at him accusingly, he glanced at the dog. Silentfartosis was written all over his face.
Etymology:
Culpritulise
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: cul prit u li ze
Sentence: and she tried to culpritulise me! and she was the one who did it!
Etymology: its all blame here.
Comments:
Kevcom2007 - 2006-12-07: 07:14:00
You guys should try the morning, you get all the perks of having no words all ready made by other users... It's pretty cool.
wordmeister - 2006-12-07: 09:17:00
Looking at the words you guys create, it obvious that the early bird gets the turd -- I mean word. But the rest of us have to drink coffee...
chris - 2006-12-07: 15:10:00
...good word, babel
babel - 2006-12-07: 15:56:00
I'm lucky - GMT+0 here...