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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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Procregret
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: pro-cree-gret
Sentence: When her son was arrested for sexually assaulting the school's goat mascot, Sue precregretted that drunken night sixteen years ago in the back of whats-his-name's car.
Etymology: procreate,regret
Slapsed
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: slap-sz'd
Sentence: Sadly, many parents are slapsed by their children these days.
Etymology: slapped + elapsed (as in, time elapsed since you were a child)
Irrinfintated
Created by: katiesavard
Pronunciation: ee-rin-fin-tate-ed
Sentence: 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.
Etymology: irritated, infant - irrinfintated
Genafuc
Created by: pandafever
Pronunciation: jean-A-fudd
Sentence: My mom cringed with genafuc when I told her I was stripping.
Etymology:
Outerchildism
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: ow - ter - child - ism
Sentence: Shelly's outerchildism was making it hard for her to get over her children's failures.
Etymology: a play off of innerchild
Parappointment
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: pair-ah-point-ment
Sentence: I can't believe she spent that money on her hair, Marcy said to her manicurist.
Etymology: parent+disappointment
Fishappointment
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fish ap poynt ment
Sentence: Eddy & Molly had high hopes for their young fry, Gill. But time after time he created fishappointment in his parents by repeating their errors. Like most tuna-aged offspring, he skipped school, wore a mullet and a sole-patch, his room smelt and he swore just for the halibut. His parents were fishsatisfied with his behaviour and to avoid further fishcontent, they carped at him until he got a job. He was a fishgruntled bass-tard at first, but finally found his porpoise and plaice as a spawn-broker.
Etymology: Fish (any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills) & Disappointment (a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized)
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
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)
