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'But that wasn't cheating! We weren't married last week!'

DEFINITION: To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation.

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Datelyin

Created by: tatterdemalion

Pronunciation: dayt-LIE-in

Sentence: Dave relied on datelyin to get himself out of many a chronological conundrum.

Etymology: date + lying

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Mudate

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: MEW/date

Sentence: Like Joseph Stalin did with Russian history, Fred had to mudate his past. So Fred went through a transmudation, eliminating from his life all the dates and events which he didn't like, especially his first wife and their divorce. His transmudation was such a liberating experience he wrote a best seller self-help book "Mudate Your Way To Success and Happiness".

Etymology: mutate + date

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Fluxcapacitate

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: flux-ka-pass-eh-tate

Sentence: She should have seen it coming: His stringy bleached-white hair, his long trench coat, and his affinity for Deloreans should have been enough to warn her about his ability to fluxcapacitate his way out of an arguement.

Etymology: From the flux capacitor time travel mechanism made famous in "Back to the Future."

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Retconceal

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: ret + con + seal

Sentence: No, the report isn't done, but I can retconceal that by telling the boss I didn't get the e-mail until today.

Etymology: retcon + conceal

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Marangle

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: marr-ang-gul

Sentence: Ross marangled with Rachel when he got caught sleeping with another girl and justified it by saying that he & Rachel were on a "break".

Etymology: mar (damage) + angle (perspective)

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Gildspree

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: gild + spree

Sentence: Worried that his working-class roots, would be discovered, Bob felt that he needed a background makeover to take him to a top job at the blue-blood, dominated legal firm where he just started to work. Immediately, he set out on a gildspree to goldproof his future. First he changed his place of birth, then his late father's occupation and, finally, to add a bit more self-sparkle, put it around that his maternal grandmother was european royalty. A gildmonger he was, a skilled one, he thought, but would he find out the hard way that all that glitters may not be gold.

Etymology: gild, (OE): a thin layer of gold put on & spree (ON): to run freely..

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COMMENTS:

One midassume that he had the golden touch - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:10:00

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Twistory

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: TWIHST-ur-ee

Sentence: Alex's girlfriend stormed out of the room, "I NEVER dated you, you are twistory to me!"

Etymology: twist + history + story

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Datetripper

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: date/tripper

Sentence: He was a datetripper - Sunday driver yeah - it took me so oh oh long to find out -but I found out - his chronology was the only one that mattered and that made him sing

Etymology: date (as in calendar) + day tripper

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Diartwist

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: dy/ar/twist

Sentence: Whenever it suited his purpose the diartwist rewrote the diary in the kitchen

Etymology: diary + twist + diarist

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Liary

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: lie-ah-ree

Sentence: as he realised he'd forgotten her birthday he quickly pulled out his liary to convince her that her birthday wasn't until next week

Etymology: liar, diary

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Calendangle

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: calen-dangle

Sentence: Chris always left me calendangling because he could always come up with an excuse for a much higher priority event that was on at the "same" time.

Etymology: calendar + dangle (like a telephone handset when the caller has run off)

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Optimez

Created by: frostycharlie69

Pronunciation: Op-tee-mez

Sentence: I had to optimez the situation so as not to worry my mother.

Etymology: Merging of "time" and "optimize".

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Retrovise

Created by: ChristopherAndersen

Pronunciation: RET ro vize

Sentence: They decided to retrovise their daughter's birthday to AFTER the wedding.

Etymology: retro: backward, and vise: see or view

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Fudgule

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: fuj-ew-ull

Sentence: As he totally forgot his wife's birthday, he had to fudgule it.

Etymology: fudge, schedule

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I hope his birthday plans include a chocolate fudge cake - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:32:00

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Chronoflamming

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: KROHN-oh-flam-ming

Sentence: Twila often mailed post-dated checks to the utility companies, just in case she was a few dollars short, which was still one of the more harmless ways she expressed her congenital need to engage in daily chronoflamming.

Etymology: Chrono- (time prefix) + flamming (trickery or deception)

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a very chrono logical sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:13:00

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Whistwash

Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: whist-wash

Sentence: By whistwashing the family tree, we were able to ignore what would otherwise have been anomalies, such as wedding dates post-offspring and relationships likely to promote the recessive. Unfortunately, the technique did nothing to limit the number of chinless wonders at family gatherings!

Etymology: whitewash + history

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COMMENTS:

I also saw "wistful" in it. - mplsbohemian, 2007-08-01: 12:11:00

But with our relations, no "fistful!" - administraitor, 2007-08-01: 13:53:00

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Deloreanate

Created by: fastward

Pronunciation: delor eanate

Sentence: He tried to deloreanate his wedding date for tax purposes.

Etymology: A Delorean automobile was turned into a time machine.

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