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DEFINITION: n., The shock and embarrassment felt after innocently implying that you are much younger, only to discover that everyone actually knows how old you really are. v., To be embarrassed when caught lying about your age.
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Humiliaged
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: (h)yoōmilēājd
Sentence: Joyce was humiliaged when her coworkers threw her a surprise party. Somebody was clever enough to obtain a copy of the newspaper from the day she was born,as registered with HR, not what she had been telling people for years. OOPS! Busted!
Etymology: humiliate (make someone feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and self-respect) + aged (that has been subjected to aging)
Fableage
Mendageious
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: men day jus
Sentence: When they put the 50 candles on her birthday cake, Julie carried on her mendageious behaviour by acting all surprised and horrified that her usual 39 candles weren't on the cake!
Etymology: Mendacious (intentionally untrue;caught in a lie)& Age (how long something/someone has existed)
Mortifeonscious
Created by: sean30
Pronunciation: Morti-fe-ons-cious
Sentence: Ive never felt so Mortifeonscious recently, after i was caught out over my age while taking my junior cert exam. I think growing a beard might have contributed to unmasking my true age!
Etymology: Mortify - Self-conscious
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COMMENTS:
Liked the 'eon' in there, too! When his fiancée found out his true age he was even more mortfeonscious! Neat creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:02:00
to hard to pronounce - purpleman, 2008-02-05: 16:51:00
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Crisage
Created by: LivingGummyWorm
Pronunciation: Cry-sage
Sentence: That birthday party was such a crisage!
Etymology:
Discombobulage
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: Dis com bob you lage
Sentence: When Helen opened the door she was pleasantly surprised to find her friends waiting with a cake, until her eye caught the smirk on Jame's face and her joy turned to discombobulage: was that a "40" candle?
Etymology: Discombobulate: to upset, fluster or distress Age: how many trips around the sun one has lived through
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COMMENTS:
Don't I know you from somewhere ? - emdeejay, 2008-12-01: 02:55:00
That sounds like a pick-up line :) - dochanne, 2008-12-04: 13:06:00
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Lieoulardegeneration
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: lie oc you lar dee jen er a shun
Sentence: Lothario loved the ladies. They were always first on his AGEnda. Seeing his silvery roots, gold-in-teeth with their age gaps, along with his lead bottom, ladies guesstimated his age breakit was in the 80's. The ladies gave him the cold shoulder, placing him in the ice age, making him start another lies age. Despite his best efforts, the laides considered him beyond the age of consent. Lothario, not only suffered from red-eyed macular degeneration, he suffered from red-lied lieoculardegeneration.
Etymology: Macular Degeneration - disease that can come with aging. Lie - to refrain from the telling the truth, particularly about one's age. Ocular - of the eye and sight which sometimes is not fooled. Degeneration - deterioration, not only from aging, but also social deterioration from embarrassment over age. Generation - another synonym for age.
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COMMENTS:
Lothario eventually met his perfect match ... lies age Delielah. - silveryaspen, 2008-11-28: 01:19:00
This one is quite a mouthful... :-p - logarithm, 2008-11-28: 01:48:00
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Moronologicallessment
Created by: ElCappa
Pronunciation: Moron-O-logic-Alice-ment
Sentence: I felt moronologicallessment after being turned away from the Liquor store. Turns out my fake ID wouldn't cut it.
Etymology: Moron - A Fool (Ch)ronological - Time related (Embar)assment - Shame
Trickage
Created by: seniouxa13
Pronunciation: trik-eyj
Sentence: This trickage is getting on my nerves that I'm getting more wrinkles on my forehead!
Etymology: From trick and age, literally to trick about the age
Aacknowlagement
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: ak NAHL age ment
Sentence: When Miss Leed walked into her surprise 50th-birthday party, she suddenly understood that everyone had known for a long time what her real age was. Her becoming speechless was an indicator of aack-knowlAGEment of her realization, since she had never been known to lack something to say. One of her coworkers slapped her on the back and said, "Come on, do the math. You just got your 20-year pin last year. You couldn't have started working as a doctor when you were 19!"
Etymology: AACK (expression of embarrassment or shock) + knowledge + age (A play on the word "acknowledgment")
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-02-05: 06:56:00
Had so much fun with your definition remistram! All kinds of related verboticisms popped into my mind, some of which I couldn't resist putting in my sentence as I sat here laughing out loud. Everyone's great creations made me laugh more. Fun definition!
ErWenn - 2008-02-05: 10:09:00
I've made it a point to let my friends know that on my birthday cake, I expect one candle for every year of my age. (Next is the big three-oh.) You can't stop getting older, so you might as well enjoy the fire hazard that your birthday cake is slowly becoming.
remistram - 2008-02-05: 12:05:00
Can relate - turned the big 4-0 in January....ack!
Yes the fires are getting bigger ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-11-28: 14:10:00
Lots of fun and funny sentences today!
Nosila - 2008-11-28: 21:50:00
When I red your story I knew it was one in vermilion!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James