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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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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)
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)
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.
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
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.
Witherump
Created by: CrayonWarrior
Pronunciation: wee-thur-ump
Sentence: Whenever David tripped up he would witherump the ground, aiming to blame a non existant trip hazard
Etymology: Wither - to stare at with hate. Hump - small bump
Pseudoblamigazer
Created by: Korinne
Pronunciation: Soo-doe-blam-eh-gazer
Sentence: I sit and people watch from the mall food court everyday. On average, I see one pseudoblamigazer per week! They think no one sees they've tripped over virtually nothing, thin air, but I did...
Etymology: Pseudo + Blame + Gazer
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
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"
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Today's definition was suggested by c1mcgraw. Thank you c1mcgraw ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by c1mcgraw. Thank you c1mcgraw. ~ James