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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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Fibrillagetions
Created by: bananabender
Pronunciation: FIB-ruh-LAYJ-shunz
Sentence: She counted the candles, realised that they had somehow discovered her real age, and immediately felt strange and more than a little unwell. She saw looks of horror descend over her friends' faces and noticed others trying to hide their laughter as the involuntary muscle twitching affected her. She was aging twenty years before their very eyes! Such is the eerie phenomenon of fibrillagetion.
Etymology: Blend of fib, age, rage, and fibrillations (Fine, rapid twitching of individual muscle fibers with little or no movement of the muscle as a whole.)
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COMMENTS:
Another great blend of so many appropriate concepts and words. - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:04:00
great sentence to accompany the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-05: 09:29:00
Great sentence and word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 15:45:00
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Tempestafucitum
Created by: CanadianAndyCapp
Pronunciation: Tem-pust-a-fook-e-tum
Sentence: Annie had a total tempestafucitum over finding out that her true age had been found out and that her attempts to diguise the effects of time had failed.
Etymology: Tempest :(orig Latin. Tempus) - a storm related to time. A : (French. ) to. Fucitum : (Latin.) - to be caught or ensnared. See Also: Chronolonakitum (Orig. Greek)
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COMMENTS:
I like this one. Reminds me of "tempus fugit" - ErWenn, 2008-02-05: 10:11:00
Far out! Kudos for originality! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 18:21:00
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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)
Wrinklerankle
Created by: Maxine
Pronunciation: rinkul rankul
Sentence: "Are you implying that I'm OLD?" raged a wrinklerankled Robin. "I am NOT OLD! I am thirty-three!" (She was forty-two.)
Etymology: wrinkle, rankle; rank, ran, ankle; rink, ink, inkle.
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COMMENTS:
Fun word! Fun sentence. But funniest was your last six words in the etymology! Clever mindworks and minedwords! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:29:00
Excellent verboticism! Truly made me laugh out loud. Etymology is cool too.....but...inkle? lol - Mustang, 2008-02-05: 07:32:00
good word, but wrinkleranklerankrananklerinkinkinkle is even better! - galwaywegian, 2008-02-05: 07:47:00
Great word and etymology! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:30:00
nice etymology.........................................................lol - purpleman, 2008-02-06: 20:00:00
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Crisage
Created by: LivingGummyWorm
Pronunciation: Cry-sage
Sentence: That birthday party was such a crisage!
Etymology:
Demoralizageshun
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dee/moral/i/zayj/shun
Sentence: Sue suffered complete demoralizageshun when she and her girlfriends got carded after a Hannah Montana concert. She claimed she was dyslexic and thought 15 and 51 were the same.
Etymology: demoralization + age + shun
Gravtitty
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: grav tit tee
Sentence: The gravtitty of the situation was brought home to her when she went to the pool with out her industrial strength lycra swimsuit and the lifeguard thought she was being attacked by a pair of demented seals.
Etymology: gravity, titty
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COMMENTS:
Roaring with laughter. No one could keep from giggling when using or hearing this word and the images it brings to mind! Great sentence, too! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:24:00
so funny!! - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-05: 09:40:00
haha - bookowl, 2008-02-05: 13:11:00
clever & funny, luv the word too! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:12:00
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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
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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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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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