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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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Culpabully
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kull - pa - bull - ee
Sentence: Marcy is known as a culpabully. No matter what goes wrong in the world, she always blames someone; even if it is a force of nature or circumstantial.
Etymology: culpable (deserving blame), bull (a serious and ludicrous blunder,bullshit: obscene words for unacceptable behavior), bully (pick on, browbeat)
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COMMENTS:
like it - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-17: 16:03:00
Good one. - Mustang, 2009-06-18: 00:23:00
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Sinflate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: sin-flate
Sentence: Jean would sinflate every mistake Jack made until he felt like he needed to beg for absolution.
Etymology: sin: guilt, trespass, ungodliness + inflate:aggrandize, blow out of proportion
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?)
Blunderbus
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bluhn-der-buhs
Sentence: Jill never feels that she is to blame for anything. Should one of her friends suggest that she has made a mistake, she is perfectly willing to throw them under the blunderbus. She will then take over for the driver and do doughnuts just to drive her point home.
Etymology: blunder (mistake) + blunderbuss (an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range )
Yourfaulter
Created by: warmfuzzykitten
Pronunciation: yor-fall-ter
Sentence: In a five-minute discussion of global warming, the yourfaulter blamed China, farting cows, heavy breathers, George Soros, the Illuminati, aliens, his parents, and that yappy dog down the street.
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Attributt
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: āt'rə-bŭt'
Sentence: "You're such an attributt," Georg whined. Inga had just finished explaining why he was responsible for the rainstorm that soaked them as they dashed from their car to the bistro, and for the lack of nearby parking spots.
Etymology: 'attri,' var. of Atra, trade name for late 20th century shaving device; 'butt,' any of several flatfishes, esp. the halibut; literally, 'attributt' is 'to shave one's halibut.'
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COMMENTS:
worth a vote for the etymology alone!! - galwaywegian, 2008-04-24: 07:20:00
What can I say? lol Good word. - Mustang, 2008-04-24: 22:13:00
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Faultypowers
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fall tee pow urs
Sentence: Basil Fawlty is a faultypowers. He faultypowers his hotel guests for expecting too much from him, like sunny weather and decent food. He faultypowers his wife Sybil, his little nest of vipers, for his cynical world view, due to his prison camp of a marriage (she being the warden, of course and he the lifer). And mainly he faultypowers Manuel, his dogsbody, on everything and anything else that clouds his day, just because Manuel is from Barcelona and can never understand enough English to know he is to blame. In his own mind, nothing is ever Basil's fault. Luckily he has Sybil to constantly remind him that he is wrong about that, too!
Etymology: faulty (describes a situation where things are wrongly done; being responsible for errors or defects;gives reason to complain) & powers (in fluential persons; ability to act or make changes; superhuman skills) & for rhyming and reference, Fawlty Towers (popular British sitcom)
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COMMENTS:
I love Faulty Towers! - pieceof314, 2008-04-24: 11:30:00
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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)
Critisighs
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: kri/ti/size
Sentence: Sally was convinced that the world was doomed by thoughtless people and would often let her opinions out in carefully aimed citisighs. "odor" "mold" "dust" "waste of space"
Etymology: criticize + sighs
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COMMENTS:
funny word! - wordmeister, 2008-04-24: 10:09:00
Nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-26: 19:10:00
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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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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