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DEFINITION: n., The withering glare one casts down on a non-existent trip-hazard after stumbling for no apparent reason. v. tr., To fixate on an imaginary object, or person, in order to externalize the blame for one's own shortcomings.
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Scapeghost
Created by: cduenas
Pronunciation: scape - ghost
Sentence:
Etymology: scapegoat, as in a diversion ghost, as in invisible or nonexixstant
Glazoveristic
Created by: ebdub
Pronunciation: glaz - a - veri - istic
Sentence: If not for the slight, followed by a glazoveristic response, one would have to, in a way, acknowledge some part in such blundering folly.
Etymology: glaze-over-istic : of, relating to, or characteristic of glazing over
Ungracefulitis
Created by: Rabbit
Pronunciation: un-graceful-i-tis
Sentence: Though suffering from ungracefulitis, Alice still continues to go about daily errands denying her condition.
Etymology: ungraceful - clumsy + itis - inflamation of any part of the body consisting in the congestion of blood vessels.
Gawkward
Created by: hendrixius
Pronunciation: /gawk-werd/
Sentence: Bobby cast an annoyed, gawkward glance towards the perfectly level sidewalk behind him as he stumbled away from the trapparition.
Etymology: "gawk" and "awkward"
Fauxcus
Created by: flyingheadlice
Pronunciation: FO-kus
Sentence: He fauxcused on Jim as the person responsible for the empty cookie jar.
Etymology: faux, focus
Scornification
Created by: CEE1ESS
Pronunciation: skorn-ific-ashun
Sentence: Tripping over an unseen rock, she gave it a glance of scornification, as if to blame her clumsiness on the bedrock beneath her feet.
Etymology: from the word scorn
Folleye
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: fall - I
Sentence: My psychotic episodes caused me to hold Lee Majors responsible for all my shortcomings. The threat of legal retribution forced me to refer to Lee as my Folleye.
Etymology: folly - a great useless structure, + eye - that object from which we see
Assayovertincups
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ah-SAY-over-tin-cups
Sentence: It was a well-known fact that Tom was a clutz. He tried to hide the fact for a few months by performing a careful assayovertincups, but after stumbling over just about every crack between the tiles in the office floor, he gave up the blooperuse.
Etymology: ass-over-tin-cups, assay
Phantimplicate
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /fan-tim'-pli-kayt/
Sentence: After doing a superb impression of Marcel Marceau, tripping over nothing whatsoever, Josh felt compelled to phantimplicate an invisible hump in the floor, and a possible gravitational fluctuation, as the cause of his klutziness.
Etymology: phantom - creation of the imagination, (Latin phantasma) + implicate - to incriminate; to involve in an accusation (Latin, implicāre)
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COMMENTS:
Nice blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:20:00
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Projectigaze
Created by: IllmaticKD
Pronunciation: Pro'ject'i'gaze
Sentence: Yesterday I completely fell over and rolled onto the street, to save face I immediately attempted a projectigaze.
Etymology: noun; Derived from two words. One being projection. The other being gaze.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by c1mcgraw. Thank you c1mcgraw ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by c1mcgraw. Thank you c1mcgraw. ~ James