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DEFINITION: v. To be angry and disappointed (and secretly embarrassed) when your children grow up to make the same foolish mistakes that you did. n. The emotion parents feel when they see their children make the same mistakes they did.

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Stupinheritance

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: stup-in-her-i-tans

Sentence: I thought John would grow up to be something, like me! Instead he stupinherited his father's ability as a slacker!

Etymology: stupid + inheritance

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Babyblooper

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: bay/bee/blu/per

Sentence: The child of a baby boomer often ends up as a babyblooper, making the same mistakes as his or her parents over and over again

Etymology: baby boomer + blooper

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Heirroneous

Created by: Carla

Pronunciation: air-roh-nee-us

Sentence: Like his father, and his father's father before him, Tim heirroneously believed money could buy him happiness.

Etymology: heir + erroneous (containing or derived from error)

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Genashame

Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: jen-a-shame or jeen-a-shame

Sentence: Bob was overcome with genashame upon discovering Robert Jr's conversion to a wacky cult like Christianity.

Etymology: From "gene" and "shame/ashamed". Anyone upset by my sentence will surely forgive me...

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Errsapparent

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ers ap pare ent

Sentence: The Mrs Fishes were commiserating about the small fry of today and how much they're errsapparent. "Yes", says the first, "Look at my son, Sid Fishes, he is sporting a mullet, he carps about his school work, and he acts gilled-ty because his room smelt like seaweed". "I know what you mean", says the second. "Mine has lost his porpoise, is dating a barracuda, drinks Bass Ale, pretends he's hard of herring, and Holy Mackerel, now he wants to change his name to Salmon Rushdie, just for the halibut!"

Etymology: Errs (to make mistakes or be incorrect) & Apparent (obvious to the mind and eye) & A Parent (person who begats and or raises a child) and play on Heirs Apparent (An heir apparent is an heir who (short of a fundamental change in the situation) cannot be displaced from inheriting).

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