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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.
Verboticisms
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Coughractured
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kôfrakchərd
Sentence: Jimmy doesn’t really want to talk about his latest injury. Apparently he is embarrassed that he coughractured his finger while picking his nose.
Etymology: cough (expel air from the lungs with a sudden sharp sound) + fratcured (the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material)
Ordinowie
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: ôr'dn-ou'ē
Sentence: Kip couldn't believe the pain of the muscle strain in his lower back. He had been in fights and car wrecks, and had sufferred various wounds in them as well as during his stint as a military policeman in Saigon, but this was just an ordinowie-a channel-changing injury-he'd pulled his back reaching for the remote.
Etymology: 'Ord,' Army post in Monterey Bay, California; 'inow,' var. on the mantra of the know-it-all; 'ie,' abbr. for id est, latin, 'that is.'
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COMMENTS:
interesting ety, there! - pieceof314, 2008-04-15: 13:12:00
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Injurease
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: in - jur - eees
Sentence: Judy had a new injurease. She sprained her arm when she reached into the refrigerator to get the orange juice. It seemed that it hurt just to be alive.
Etymology: injury, ease
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COMMENTS:
Makes you want to avoid orange juice. Evil orange juice. - artr, 2009-06-01: 05:22:00
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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)
Chagrinjury
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sha-GRIN-jry
Sentence: Elwood suffered yet another chagrinjury when he got his finger caught in the whisk attachment on his mixer, jerked the mixer off the counter wherein it fell on his toes, and while dancing about in pain knocked himself senseless when his head whacked into the open cupboard door.
Etymology: Blend of 'chagrin' (a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation) and 'injury'
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COMMENTS:
What a klutz! Good one. - Nosila, 2009-06-01: 14:37:00
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Sedenjury
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: said-en-jury
Sentence: It was a rather confusing case for the public, but in the end both suicide and murder were ruled out as the cause of the bloody scene. According to the autopsy report, it was a rare, mortal sedenjury caused by an all-too-full exploding can of beer that did Bob in. Who knew couch-surfing could be so dangerous?
Etymology: Sedentary+Injury=sedenjury
Incapassitate
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: in/ka/pass'/i/tate
Sentence: Brian told eveyone he had broken his leg by diving in front of a speeding car to save a small child. He was too embarrassed to admit he had incapassitated himself by tripping over a speed bump in the parking lot.
Etymology: incapacitate + ass
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-15: 10:50:00
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Youtilate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: u til layt
Sentence: In his Victim's Statement, Mervin could only lay blame on himself for the disfiguring stapler incident. He did indeed unwittingly youtilate himself by pointing the offending sharp electric stapler towards his groin area before firing at will. Sure he couldn't have kids now, but at least he was able to keep his legs together. His fastenating career at Staples was now secure!
Etymology: You (as in yourself, no one else;second person singular) & Mutilate (destroy or injure severely;alter so as to make unrecognizable)
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COMMENTS:
Clever! - Mustang, 2009-06-02: 00:00:00
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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
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. . .