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DEFINITION: To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation.
Verboticisms
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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
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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COMMENTS:
a very chrono logical sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:13:00
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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.
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
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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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
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)
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
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".
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
