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DEFINITION: n. A person who blames their neighbors, coworkers, and/or parents for anything and everything that is wrong in the world. v. To lay blame on someone for something which is obviously beyond their control and influence.
Verboticisms
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Blaim
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: blll aym
Sentence: She was the consummate blaimer, the word sorry only ever left her lips if preceded by "you'll be" of followed by "I ever met someone so incompetent". It was probably hereditary.
Etymology: Blame. Aim.
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COMMENTS:
good one, galwaywegian...have met her! - Nosila, 2008-04-24: 21:30:00
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Ufauxism
Created by: green
Pronunciation: U fo ism
Sentence: This is just proof of your stupid ufauxism.
Etymology: You faux ism
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COMMENTS:
Very good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-26: 19:12:00
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Blameslinger
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: blāmslingər
Sentence: Marge doesn’t like to admit fault for anything. She can be quite the blameslinger, all too ready to shoot from the lip at anybody within earshot.
Etymology: blame (assign responsibility for a fault or wrong) + gunslinger (a man who carries a gun and shoots well)
Manipublame
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: man ip u blaym
Sentence: Sherry is the Queen of manipublame. Nothing in the world is ever her fault. It's her parent's fault she was born; her teachers' fault she did poorly in school;her boss' fault she got fired and her boyfriend Andrew's fault that she is having to plan a wedding. If he thinks she's grumpy now, wait till she is stressed out by wedding details. Run, Andrew, run while you still can...
Etymology: Manipulate (influence or control shrewdly or deviously) & Blame (Accuse;reproch;attribute responsibility to)
Faultune
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: folt-you-n
Sentence: Kate was shunned by her neighbours because they were tired of her faultuning them. They had tried to be friendly, but what could they do with someone who castigated them for the sun coming up later as Winter came on.
Etymology: fault + fortune (destiny, fate) + tune (she's not singing that same old song again?)
Boywhip
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈbɔɪˌʍɪp/
Sentence: The boywhipper would blame his coworkers, his family, his friends, random passers-by, modern technology, politics, climate change, UFOs, supernatural beings, Murphy, and even himself on occasion but NEVER would he even dream of blaming his cat.
Etymology: To boywhip is to whip a whipping boy. A boywhipper is one who does so.
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COMMENTS:
methinks you have a very cool cat ErWenn - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-24: 13:19:00
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Faultfoist
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: fawlt/foist
Sentence: Jenny faultfoists all her marriage problems on her mother.
Etymology: fault (flaw; failing) + foist (to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably)
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COMMENTS:
that's martial law for you! - galwaywegian, 2008-04-24: 05:41:00
Good blend - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-26: 19:11:00
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Coblamer
Created by: chingbangwa
Pronunciation: koh-blay-mer
Sentence: Julia is the world biggest coblamer. She lost a game of tetris and blamed it on me saying i distrupted her.
Etymology: co+blamer
Blamebidextrous
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: blame/bee/dex/trose
Sentence: A blamebedextrous person can shift blame with double the speed.
Etymology: blame + be + ambidextrous
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COMMENTS:
clver! - mweinmann, 2009-06-18: 08:52:00
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Raptionalize
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /RAP-shun-uh-liyz/
Sentence: Nothing was ever Doug's fault, and he would be the first one to admit that. He would raptionalize away any hint of blame for anything that went wrong, and he never hesitated to name a scapegoat for any conceivable problem. Doug made an art out of 'passing the buck'. Even when he was caught taking office supplies from the office, he blamed his parents for not spending enough time with him as a child, because, he explained, they were both workaholics.
Etymology: Rap - blame or punishment, especially for a crime (from Swedish, rapp "light blow" as in a rebuke) + Rationalize - to ascribe problems to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid, but are actually unrelated (from Latin, ratiōnālis "reason")
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
Tigger - 2008-04-24: 02:50:00
Too bad 'blamestorm' is already in common use...
- 2008-04-26: 15:51:00
hilarious
- 2008-04-27: 07:02:00
Hiillarious clinton
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James