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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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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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COMMENTS:
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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COMMENTS:
a very chrono logical sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:13:00
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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
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
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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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
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
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."
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
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)
