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'What bump? I don't see a bump.'

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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Falltale

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: fall/tale

Sentence: He had to invent another falltale after he stumbled over a chalkline on the sidewalk.

Etymology: tall tale + fall

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Photrip

Created by: Bullwinkle

Pronunciation: Foe'trip

Sentence: That photrip is dangerous

Etymology: see: faux

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Tripnosis

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: trihp-know-sis

Sentence: After stumbling in front of her date, Janet entered a state of tripnosis, feverishly looking for the non-existent bump that caused the stumble.

Etymology: trip + hypnosis

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COMMENTS:

I like how your word implies that Janet must be 'trippin' if she thinks anyone buys her act. - Tigger, 2007-12-04: 18:30:00

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Egothrough

Created by: looseball

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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Getupitee

Created by: biffbig1

Pronunciation: get+up+it+ee

Sentence: His getupitee never got up and went so I tripped over him and it made me mad.

Etymology: giddyup + he

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Fantascribe

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: fan/ta/scribe

Sentence: Whenever something went wrong, he would always fantascribe the cause. Of course it was always something unseen by anyone else.

Etymology: fantasize + describe + ascribe (to blame - to attribute)

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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.

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Scapeghost

cduenas

Created by: cduenas

Pronunciation: scape - ghost

Sentence:

Etymology: scapegoat, as in a diversion ghost, as in invisible or nonexixstant

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Grimstigate

Created by: MichaelCampbellUK

Pronunciation: grim-sti-gate

Sentence: George vigorously grimstigated the third glowerfolly of the day.

Etymology: Grimace + castigate.

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Fine word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:19:00

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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

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Scapegroping

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Scaip + grop + ing

Sentence: Needing to produce a reasonable explanation for his ineptitude and mindless bumbling, Arnold once again resorted to scapegroping.

Etymology: Scapegoat + groping

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Danghagerz

Created by: ynneg

Pronunciation: dang-ha-gerz

Sentence: He danghagerz the stone that brought him so much embarrassment to his friends.

Etymology: from a bisaya word "danghag" that means you were not careful..

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Aporcryphogled

Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: ə-pŏk'rə-fō'gəld

Sentence: John aporcyphogled the location where he slipped. He could have sworn he saw a banana peel through the corner of his eye as he was tumbling down the stairs.

Etymology: Apocryphal - Erroneous; fictitious. + ogled - To stare at.

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Witherump

CrayonWarrior

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

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Fauxcus

Created by: flyingheadlice

Pronunciation: FO-kus

Sentence: He fauxcused on Jim as the person responsible for the empty cookie jar.

Etymology: faux, focus

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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

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Phantasmagaze

Created by: Ransom

Pronunciation: fan-TAZ-mah-gayz

Sentence: When arrogant Timothy tripped on his own shoelace, his phantasmagaze directed at the floor was priceless.

Etymology: phantasmagoria + gaze

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Scornification

CEE1ESS

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

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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"

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Scrapegoat

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation:

Sentence: With accusing eyes, he fixed a scrapegoat at the offending floor tile.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

excellent! - galwaywegian, 2007-12-04: 07:57:00

nice one... - hendrixius, 2007-12-04: 15:11:00

Excellent! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:19:00

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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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Nice blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:20:00

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Exoprojection

Created by: dubld

Pronunciation: {x/o/pro/jek/shun}

Sentence: Exoprojection was the way Mark maintained his composure, cursing the heavens for the invisible trip wire instead of crying for his clumsiness.

Etymology: EXO- "Outward" PROJECTION - "Casting something onto something else"

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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.

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Dreamscapegoat

Created by: MithrilShadow

Pronunciation: drēm-skāp-ˌgōt (Dream+Scapegoat)

Sentence: When Jason tripped on seemingly nothing, he blamed it on an invisible Leprechaun. But we all know that was just a dreamscapegoat. (Note: Scapegoat comes from: a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur)

Etymology: Dream: a visionary creation of the imagination. Scapegoat: one that bears the blame for others.

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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

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Figmatize

Created by: frankierio

Pronunciation: fig-ma-tyz

Sentence: Embarassed, and now looking up from the carpet,Maria figmatized the empty spot that did her in.

Etymology: A figment of your imagination that traumatizes oneself.

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COMMENTS:

Very good!! - Mustang, 2007-12-04: 05:32:00

I like it too! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-12-04: 16:19:00

Agreed, excellent -- sounds very natural. - Tigger, 2007-12-04: 18:34:00

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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)

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Pseudoblamigazer

Korinne

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

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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

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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.

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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)

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Fauxfault

Created by: schoolmarm

Pronunciation: fo/FAULT

Sentence: Quickly recovering her balance, she subjected the errant sidewalk crack to a fauxfault intense enough to wither lettuce at fifty feet.

Etymology: French

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Stigmateyesize

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: stigmateyesize: stig - matt - eye - size

Sentence: I need to exercise my eyes because I stigmateyesize a lot, sending my feet into a merry dance to keep from falling.

Etymology: Stigmateyesize: stigmat is a combination of stigma and mat. Stigma for the stigma of feet tripping on nothing ... and mat for the imaginary bump you want to blaim it on. Eyesize for staring as if to size up what isn't there.

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Tumbrage

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: TUHM-brij

Sentence: At first glance, her friends thought that Roxie's roll was 'slapstick in stilettos'; however, they soon learned of her true feelings and her tarmacadam tumbrage.

Etymology: Tumbrage: blend of tumble and umbrage:a feeling of anger caused by being offended; suspicion that someone has been slighted.

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like it! - galwaywegian, 2007-12-04: 07:58:00

good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-04: 12:13:00

Ah, very nice. - Tigger, 2007-12-04: 18:27:00

fine wordsmithery - c1mcgraw, 2007-12-05: 20:18:00

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Tripliprevarication

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: trip/le/pree/veri/cay/shun

Sentence: After falling three times in a row, he had to do some serious tripliprevarication.

Etymology: trip + prevaricate + triplication

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Toolgal

madara

Created by: madara

Pronunciation: Tool-gal

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-12-04: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by c1mcgraw. Thank you c1mcgraw ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2011-08-12: 00:33:00
Today's definition was suggested by c1mcgraw. Thank you c1mcgraw. ~ James