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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.
Verboticisms
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Smaeoee
Created by: FinntheWaffle
Pronunciation: SM-AY-EE-OH
Sentence: Kaitlyn: Oh my God I want a cupcAKE ;-; Jasmine: SMAEOE
Etymology: The same as same, but saying it more fag-ified c:
Agejury
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: age/jur/ee
Sentence: She committed agejury several times during her birthday party subtracting ten years from her real age.
Etymology: AGEJURY - noun - from AGE + PERJURY (The practice of lying; falsehood, untruthfulness)
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COMMENTS:
Guilty as charged! - Nosila, 2008-11-28: 21:47:00
I want to see my plastic surgeon! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-29: 14:42:00
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Agionous
Created by: EBalser
Pronunciation: Age-io-nus
Sentence: Yesterday,I was hanging out with a bunch of 12 year olds after school and my boyfriend walked by wondering why I was, in that very moment I was agionous.
Etymology: ag-how old you are ionous-lying
Fibbage
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fibij
Sentence: It was common in the college town he grew up in for high schoolers to try to pass themselves off as college students. Wendell was never very successful at it. Maybe it was the way his voice cracked every time he got excited or the complete lack of facial or body hair. Perhaps it was that someone had seen his mother drop him off. Whatever the case, his fibbage would always be revealed. To make matters worse, girls would often not believe he was even in high school.
Etymology: fib (a lie, typically an unimportant one) + age (the length of time that a person has lived)
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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Yodaling
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: yoda/ling
Sentence: His yodaling was heard for miles when he was outed at his 90th birthday.
Etymology: yoda + yodeling
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COMMENTS:
Funny! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:23:00
wow nice combo - purpleman, 2008-02-05: 19:11:00
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Embarrabusted
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: em-bar-uh-buh-sted
Sentence: When her coworkers threw her a birthday party Joan was embarrabusted when her true age was emblazoned on the cake.
Etymology: embarrassed (uncomfortably self-conscious) + busted (caught)
Squirmage
Created by: Tjay33
Pronunciation: Skwermayge
Sentence: When Betty found out that the whole office knew her real age, she felt so much squirmage she wished the ground would open up and swallow her.
Etymology: Squirm - to feel great embarrassment + age -the amount of time you have been alive = SQUIRMAGE
Fossilies
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fos sil ayes
Sentence: Although she dressed and tried to act young, Methusalina's fossilies fooled no one. Many at the party thought the scar on her arm was from a bite inflicted on her by her pet dinosaur when she was a girl...
Etymology: Fossilize (convert to a fossil;be really old) & Lies (statements that deviate from or pervert the truth)
Whoopsage
Created by: ooosofia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I didn't realize my whoopsage until a fellow partygoer asked if I needed help turning up my hearing aid.
Etymology: whoops! + age
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