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DEFINITION: v. To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation. n. An historical date which has been "adjusted" to fit present needs.
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Chronomorphose
Created by: mbacon
Pronunciation: Krono mawr fox
Sentence: Betty chronomorphosed her birthdate so she could get the senior's discount
Etymology: Chrono meaning time, and morphose, from metamorphose meaning to transform
Retconartistry
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: RET-CON-ahr-tis-TREE
Sentence: Douglas is a master of retconartistry. I doubt he even knows his own history anymore.
Etymology: Retcon - Retroactive Continuity; Con Artist - One who lies in order to make situations advantageous to themselves.
Reventism
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: ree-vent-iz-im
Sentence: "Ugh, Doug is pulling his usual reventism. He now says he took the cat to the vet on Thursday, but the vet is closed on Thursdays"
Etymology: revise + event
Callowarp
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: cal-o-warp
Sentence: She has been reprimanded several times for callowarping
Etymology: from calender + warp
Factenhance
Created by: jonzerofourteen
Pronunciation: fakt en hanse
Sentence: Jim considered himself a top gun real estate agent. Still, he’d need to factenhance like he’d never factenhanced before if he was going to offload this piece of garbage.
Etymology: fact (reality truth) + enhance (to intensify or increase in value or quality)
Revisiondate
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: rhee-viz-shun-dayt
Sentence: It was easy to revisiondate the conception of their oldest child to make it seem like he was truely legitimate, since he was born 8 months after they were married.
Etymology: revision + date
Transmetation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: trans/ME/tey/shun
Sentence: Like Joseph Stalin, Fred had to rewrite his history. So Fred went through a transmetation, eliminating from his life all the dates and events which he didn't like.
Etymology: transmutation + me
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COMMENTS:
Works for me! - wordmeister, 2007-01-31: 09:55:00
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Retroschedule
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: ret-row-skedj-yool
Sentence: To bypass all that red tape, Homer simply retroscheduled his date of birth.
Etymology: retro = past + schedule
Comments:
allwise - 2007-01-31: 02:00:00
I think you'll win this one easy!
wordmeister - 2007-01-31: 10:42:00
Wow, "R" is the letter of the day!