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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.
Verboticisms
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Seqlieging
Created by: pandafever
Pronunciation: seek-ly-jing
Sentence: All it took was a little bit of seqlieging to fool the history professor.
Etymology:
Spinchronise
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: spin - kron - eyes
Sentence: Tont Blair's capacity to spinchronise was demonstrated as he took the credit for a successful outcome to the First World war
Etymology: spin - to manipulate information for personal gain and chronise from the greek for time
Laxidaisytime
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: lax ee daisy time
Sentence: Franks constant laxidaisytime antics left Freeda not knowing which decade she was in.
Etymology: from lackadaisic and time. Cos lackadaisical is being forgetful and not worrying about it.
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.
Tarrantinizing
Created by: Carljoyce
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After a whirlwind six months of backpacking through Europe, Quetin tarrantinized his journey to better understand how he changed.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Exactly, it's a movie.... I just can't figure out when it started. - wordmeister, 2007-01-31: 14:07:00
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Billandtedit
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: bill-and-ted-it
Sentence: in order to prosper on the dating scene she decided to billandtedit her two failed marriages out of her past
Etymology: edit, bill and ted
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COMMENTS:
Brilliant! - ErWenn, 2007-01-31: 01:37:00
Excellent, even! - ErWenn, 2007-01-31: 01:38:00
You'll win this one, easy! - allwise, 2007-01-31: 02:01:00
Dude! - cryptc, 2007-01-31: 02:01:00
I've never seen the movie. Here's the description: "Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine." Verbawesome word, Rik! - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-31: 06:21:00
excellllllllent ! - toadstool57, 2007-01-31: 07:33:00
good !! - adbern, 2007-01-31: 14:19:00
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Chronotweak
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: CROW-NO-TWEEK
Sentence: The warranty can’t be expired. It’s too new to be so tired. I told you twice – ‘twas just last week… And that’s not simply CHRONOTWEAK!
Etymology: CHRONO-prefix relating to TIME;Greek, from chronos+ TWEAK-to make usually small adjustments in or to;probably alteration of Middle English twikken to pull sharply, from Old English twiccian to pluck.
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COMMENTS:
Try this for fun:
http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/ - metrohumanx, 2009-09-01: 11:03:00
chronoversal themes - Nosila, 2009-09-01: 12:05:00
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Datemunging
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: date-munge-ing
Sentence: Bill and Janet were datemunging so that their children wouldn't figure out when they were conceived.
Etymology: date + munge
Timwizz
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: tim-wisss
Sentence: No problem to change that date, just call the timwizz, he's there for all your changes whatever you want
Etymology: tim from time wizz from wizzard
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!