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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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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.
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)
Ouchpotato
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: owch pot ay to
Sentence: Dudley Dolittle was admitted to the ER with life-threatening (in his mind)injuries. He was innocently lying on the couch, watching Law & Order Special Victims Unit at 3:00 pm, just before The Office came on in double episode at 4:00 pm. When all of a sudden the remote fell on the floor. He reached over to grab it and fell off the couch, hitting his head and temporarily knocking himself out. When he regained conciousness, he got up off the floor to go look in the mirror at any possible bruises. Unfortunately, the cat had knocked over a vase filled with flowers and water and he slipped on the hardwood floor. When the ambulance came, Dudley was in major pain. Turns out he'd wrenched his back, broke his ankle and wrist. He'd turned from a Couchpotato into an Ouchpotato. Later, when asked what caused his injury, he was able to truthfully tell people that while on an undercover assignment, he was attacked when a wild cat hit him in his sweet peas, on his way to The Office. Sadly, he was believed...
Etymology: Ouch (hurt;wound;exclamation used to express pain) & Couch Potato (an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)
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
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
Relaxident
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: ree-lax-ih-dihnt
Sentence: It was a relaxident. I was just sitting on the couch watching t.v. and when I tried to change the channel I knocked myself unconscious with the remote control.
Etymology: relax + accident
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COMMENTS:
Channel Surfing is dangerous! - Nosila, 2009-06-01: 14:39:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-06-02: 00:01:00
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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
Ziplash
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: zip lash
Sentence: When Henry accidentally caught himself in the fly of his pants(ouch), he jerked his head down so quickly to see what he had done, that he gave himself ziplash.
Etymology: Zip (zipper, fly, fastener of clothing) & Whiplash (an injury to the neck as a result of rapid acceleration or deceleration)
Hackcident
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hak sid dent
Sentence: Although in full body cast after his mishap, Steve was lucky to be alive. He had accessed secret Defense Dept. records and his hackcident was as a result of a professional visit by some burly, zealous Marine MP's. Semper Fi!
Etymology: Hack (To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization) & Accident (a mishap; especially one causing injury or death)
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. . .