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'Daddy? No it's mommy!'

DEFINITION: v. The moment when a child realizes that they are turning into their mother, or father, or both! n. To suddenly realize that you are turning into your parents.

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Relativation

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: rel-a-tiv-a-tion

Sentence: Chuck had a relativation that he had morphed into his father when he told little Chuckie to pull his finger.

Etymology: relative: kin; family + revelation: to reveal; enlightenment; to experience a moment of awareness of divine truth

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Patrimorpiphany

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: patrimorpiphany /ˌpætɹəmɔɹˈpɪfəni/ matrimorpiphany /ˌmætɹəmɔɹˈpɪfəni/

Sentence: I sort of expected to turn into my parents eventually, but I'm quickly approaching 30 with no patrimorpiphany in sight.

Etymology: patri- (father) or matri- (mother) morph- (change) + epiphany

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COMMENTS:

I don't have nearly the work ethic of either of my parents, and that doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon. - ErWenn, 2007-07-02: 00:17:00

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D.n.hey

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: dee-en-hey

Sentence: experiencing d.n.hey is a rite of passage

Etymology: DNA, Hey!

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Begotit

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: bee-got-it

Sentence: When I found myself beginning a sentence with the phrase "Ya know, when I was your age...", it was clearly evident that I had begotit.

Etymology: begot, "got it" (realization)

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Parentllelism

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: pare/ent/lell/ism

Sentence: There was a definite parentllelism the first time he did a comb over.

Etymology: parent + parallelism (similarity)

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Transhorrification

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: trans/hor/ri/fi/cation

Sentence: It was a moment of total transhorrification when he realized he was more like mom than mom.

Etymology: transmogrification (convert, transform, or change)+ horror + horrific

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COMMENTS:

perfect for the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-02: 11:02:00

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Ancestrial

Created by: rombus

Pronunciation: an - ses - tri - al

Sentence: Seeing his face in the mirror and the hearing the phrases spill out of his mouth was an ancestrial experience for Larry. It was spooky how much he was beginning to look and sound like his dad.

Etymology: ancestral, trial

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Ohcraphood

Created by: blondibabi121692

Pronunciation: oh crap hood

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Morphanity

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: morf an itee

Sentence: When that little devil, Lucifer Jones, starting acting up in school, his aunt realized that his morphanity was inevitable. Although she had raised him to be a good Christian boy, he was taking on more and more of his deceased parents' traits. There was hardly a day now that he had not broken a commandment or two, her nephew from Hell!

Etymology: morph (change into something else) & orphan (one without parents) & profanity (vulgar or irreverent speech or action) & vanity (feelings of excessive pride)

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Miscegeneration

Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: mis-e-gen-er-ay-shun

Sentence: As the "Big Four-Oh" approached, Harold began to notice the thinning hair, drooping jowels and vacant expression that in his mind characterized both his father and grandfather. "Maybe," he thought "I could stave off this miscegeneration if I were to leave home!"

Etymology: miscegenation + generation

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Comments:

Clayton - 2007-07-02: 00:57:00
Paturation

Clayton - 2007-07-02: 00:57:00
Whoops.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-07-02: 02:21:00
Hey Clayton, is that "Whoops" or "Whoopee!" for winning the top spot in last week's author ranking. It was very close -- just 3 points between you, galwaywegian and petaj! Congrats to all! ~ James

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-02: 04:50:00
Congrats Clayton!! Where's the party?

Clayton - 2007-07-02: 05:20:00
Hey... I won?! Amazing! How the heck did that happen? I don't think I even had a single word that scored over 20 pts. last week.

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-02: 08:59:00
Never mind that bit - I'm with purple - where's the party? Since Galway and petaj were so close we could have an international one.

Clayton - 2007-07-02: 10:22:00
Listen, I haven't seen any of you guys throw a party following any of your wins. This is total bull$#!+

ziggy41 - 2007-07-02: 12:19:00
Congrats Clayton, and a party, when and where? ;P

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-07-02: 14:07:00
If any artists show up at Clayton's party let them know that we are looking for illustrators and/or cartoonists to participate in our visiting artist program at Verbotomy. Please contact me at james@verbotomy.com ~ James

Clayton - 2007-07-02: 15:14:00
o_O

artr artr - 2009-07-13: 13:27:00
Guest artist? New style? Reminds me a bit of Shel Silverstein.

mrskellyscl mrskellyscl - 2009-07-13: 20:19:00
May he rest in peace. What a great writer!