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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.
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Culpabully
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kəlpəboŏlē
Sentence: Joyce is a culpabully, blaming everybody else for everything that happens to her or anyone else. Just this morning her dog Patsy took a lambasting for causing Joyce to drop her breakfast even though he was sleeping in his crate at the time.
Etymology: culpability (deserving blame) + bully (a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker)
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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Lameblame
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: laim-blaim
Sentence: Gertrude came up with so many ridiculous reasons for her own failures that her friends began to label her tactics as lameblame, phony excuses that they knew even SHE couldn't believe.
Etymology: Blend of 'lame' (weak; inadequate; unsatisfactory; clumsy: a lame excuse) and 'blame' (to hold responsible; find fault with; censure)
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?)
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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Transfimplicate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: tranz-FIM-pleh-kayt
Sentence: Freida was borderline paranoid and saw disasters looming in any kind of bad news and even in some of her own misadventures, but rather than taking stock and dealing with issues head on she would transfimplicate, blaming other people, the government and other kinds of agencies for her perceived doom and gloom.
Etymology: Blend of transfer and implicate
Environmentalpest
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: en/vyro/mental/pest
Sentence: An environmentalpest is worse than global warming.
Etymology: environmentalist + mental + pest
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)
Guiltslinger
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: giltslingər
Sentence: Mary is quite the guiltslinger. Everything wrong with the world is the fault of everybody but her. She is all too happy to use her cigarette break to lay blame on anybody who should dare to use an aerosol product, or buy non-local produce. She writes a "How to be Green" newsletter which she delivers door-to-door in her Hummer.
Etymology: guilt (the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime) + gunslinger (a man who carries a gun and shoots well)
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COMMENTS:
love the hummer reference - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-17: 16:01:00
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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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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