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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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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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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"
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
Disrespectre
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: diss riss peck terr
Sentence: His disrespectre was directed at the invisible force that forced his open shoelace under his other foot while he was at the bar ordering his twelfth pint of guinness......probably a portergiest!
Etymology: disrespect, spectre.
Oopsersatz
Created by: kabloozie
Pronunciation: OOP ser sats
Sentence: After tripping over his feet and causing his seventh turnover during the basketball tournament, Bob glared at the painted lines on the basketball court - another oopsersatz for him to blame his lousy ball handing on.
Etymology: oops + ersatz (phony or fake)
Tumblegaze
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: tuhm-buhl-geyz
Sentence: She was in the middle of an intense tumblegaze at the small patch of mud that caused her to end up on her backside, when a bus sped by splashing her with a curbside puddle.
Etymology: tumble (to fall) + gaze
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.
Glowerpower
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: glaow er pow er
Sentence: When Sally teetered on way too high shoes, she had more than one occasion to use her glowerpower. She would stumblegrumble and aimblame when she had a griptrip and almost wiped out. Everything but the killer shoes was a haltfault. Her walkknock should be blamed insteasd on her stylerevile and pridestride.
Etymology: Glower (to stare;look at with a fixed gaze) & Power (one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority)
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
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by c1mcgraw. Thank you c1mcgraw ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by c1mcgraw. Thank you c1mcgraw. ~ James