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DEFINITION: v. To injure yourself while performing a normal everyday activity, such bending down, standing up, or turning your head quickly. n. An self-inflicted injury which occurred during a period of physical inactivity.
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Dormident
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dor/mi/dent
Sentence: Last week I went to bed perfectly normal, but sometime during the night I had a dormident and woke up with severe back pains and it took me fifteen minutes to get out of bed.
Etymology: dormant + accident (an unfortunate event in the act of doing something)- dormident (an unfortunate event in the act of doing nothing)
Accedentary
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: ack-said-in-tear-ree
Sentence: The first thing Robert noticed when he regained consciousness after the accedentary was that he had lost the race. Then he noticed the large glinting shards of the glass coffee table, reflecting images of tiny go-carts zooming past an imaginary camera. He slowly righted himself, his face crusted in blood and glass. There on the screen, displayed in repeating 1080p glory was the turn on Koopa Troopa Beach where he had lost the entire affair. Upon hitting the shortcut ramp dead on and rocketing into the dank tunnel, his excitement overwhelmed him, and with his hands thrust toward the heavens, mocking Zeus with his three-proged controller like a vengeful Poseidon brandishing his trident, he knew he alone reigned over this beach. Every crab and palm tree must now pay fealty to his awesome might. He triggered his stored lightning item for effect and basked in the power. And that was when he had the stroke.
Etymology: accident + sedentary
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-15: 10:49:00
Great story - Nosila, 2008-04-15: 20:52:00
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Mortifimpaired
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mort - iff - im - payrd
Sentence: Morton was completely mortifimpaired, suffering both injury and embarrassment at his being wheelchair bound thru an injury acquired during foolish horseplay.
Etymology: Blend of mortified and impaired.
Freaccident
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: freek-seh-dent
Sentence: Being a wholly uncoordinated and clumsy oaf, Manfred seems to suffer one freaccident after another, goofy injuries that for anyone else would be very rare.
Etymology: Blend of 'freak' (A thing or occurrence that is markedly unusual or irregular) and 'accident' (an unforeseen and unplanned mishap)
Mundjury
Created by: ElleWhite
Pronunciation: muhnd-jeer-ehy
Sentence: Embarrassed by her recent mundjury, Alice scrambled to concoct any story more impressive than "I broke my leg while walking in heels" before her friends saw the cast and crutches.
Etymology: "mund" from "mundane": commonplace; and "jury" from "injury": harm or damage
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COMMENTS:
Mundacious! - Nosila, 2010-06-22: 00:05:00
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Workouch
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: wərkouch
Sentence: Every time Wendell goes to the gym to get in shape he ends up participating in a workouch. Its not that he doesn’t believe in warming up or starting slow and building up. He just doesn’t get that far. Last week he sprained his wrist opening the lock on his locker.
Etymology: workout (a session of vigorous physical exercise or training) + ouch (used to express pain)
Injurtia
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/jur/sheea
Sentence: Mark suffered from chronic injurtia. He often injured himself surfing the internet or changing stations on the remote.
Etymology: injure + inertia
Uberklutz
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: ooh-burr-klutz
Sentence: I pulled a real uberklutz when I pulled my back tying my shoes.
Etymology: uber+klutz
Ouchpotato
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: owch poe tay toe
Sentence: the unfortunate juxtaposition of the remote control between cushions and the couchpotatos descending butt transformed him to an ouchpotato.
Etymology: couch potato, ouch
Ouchpotato
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ouch-puh-tey-toh
Sentence: A sedentary lifestyle with a certain level of atrophy have left Roger an ouchpotato.
Etymology: ouch (interjection used to express pain) + couch potato (a lazy person whose recreation consists chiefly of watching television and videos)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger. Thank you Tigger. ~ James
Banky - 2008-04-15: 15:48:00
Excellent definition, Tigger. I actually had this happen before one of my first dates with my wife, and I didn't tell her the real story until a couple months after we were married.
Hey Banky, what was the injury? And how did you hide it from your future wife? ~ James
Tigger - 2008-04-15: 22:43:00
Oh, good words everyone. I couldn't wait to get home and see what everyone came up with. I'm currently nursing a pulled stomach muscle that I got while I was reaching for the phone, when I happened to sneeze at the same time. So, I'm the idiot that inspired the definition.
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger. Thank you Tigger. ~ James
Very good word! I liked your note about it being found on Google because of people misspelling.
I think everyone has a friend's name that they could use. . .