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DEFINITION: v. To make the same mistake over and over again even though you know it's stupid. n. A compulsively repeated mistake.
Verboticisms
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Goofligate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: GOO-fli-geyt or git
Sentence: Bob, whose mistakes at first seemed like harmless nonsense, repeated them so frequently, that, in the end, through his goofligates and goofligating he lost all his friends.
Etymology: GOOF: a mistake or blunder; a stupid person & OFLIGATE (of profligate): unrestrained by convention, reckless, dissolute, self-abandoned.
Arrbeeaye
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: R-B-I
Sentence: Eee by gum, ar Donny's a dolt. Thar ee sits sticking bandaids on his hairy knees. Ee knows it's gonna sting like blazes when he pulls em off, but he keeps on doin it. ee must ave arrbeeaye.
Etymology: RSI (repetitive strain injury) + B is for brain
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COMMENTS:
forgot to weave in "repetitive brain injury", but I'm sure verbotomists are too clever to have arrbeeaye and would have figured it out anyway. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 03:32:00
I somehow assumed the etymology would include something about overeating Arby's and paying for it later. God knows it's impossible not to. - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 09:11:00
This evokes images of Long John Silver - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-07: 13:37:00
I'm afraid it's baseball season and I only saw "runs batted in". - mplsbohemian, 2007-06-07: 15:18:00
Never heard of Arby's. Sounds like some undesirable franchise we don't need in Australia. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 22:28:00
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Neuerrotic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: noo/err/rot/ik
Sentence: He was trapped in the cycle of compulsively repeating his mistakes over and over again. He was a classic neuerrotic.
Etymology: neurotic + error
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COMMENTS:
Is that the opposite of erotic? Someone who makes mistakes over and over would hardly be a turn on. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 08:21:00
...unless the mistake involved alcohol and leaving really really early before you woke up. Or so my friend says. - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 09:05:00
Your friend is AKA a "fleesel". - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-07: 12:10:00
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Airheadism
Created by: SteveMB1959
Pronunciation: Air-Head-ism
Sentence: John is showing signs of 'Airheadism' again!
Etymology: The word shows the mistake of repeated errors
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COMMENTS:
An 'empty head', capable of repeated mistakes - SteveMB1959, 2011-05-15: 07:33:00
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Dohpeat
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈdoʊˌpit/
Sentence: I knew that I was inclined to miss the freeway exit to our new house, so I made a big point of staying focused so that I wouldn't dohpeat this time. Unfortunately, my resolve led me into a false sense of security, and it wasn't until I turned on the street where we used to live that I realized it had happened again.
Etymology: From doh + repeat
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COMMENTS:
I know a dope Pete! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-07: 12:25:00
I should've known you'd already come up with a better "Doh" based word! - Osomatic, 2007-06-07: 13:37:00
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Neuerrotic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: noo/err/rot/ik
Sentence: He was trapped in the cycle of compulsively repeating his mistakes over and over again. He was a classic neuerrotic. Etymology: neurotic + error
Etymology: neurotic + error
Dohbletake
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: doh! + bull + take
Sentence: She flung a plate at him which shattered, but it missed so she was angry enough for a dohbletake and threw another.
Etymology: Doh!
Redumbdunce
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: ree-dum'-duntz
Sentence: Donna was in a good mood - she had just hooked up with a new boyfriend. She'd been visiting her last boyfriend, in prison, when she'd met Spike, just being released on parole. But when Donna called sister to tell her about Spike, her sister said it was another act of 'redumbdunce.' Her last ten boyfriends had all been convicts and criminals.
Etymology: A combination of the words; Redundance (repetition of the same meaning, but using different words), Dumb (lacking in common sense) and Dunce (a person who is stupid or slow to learn)
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COMMENTS:
Happy New Year everyone! - Tigger, 2009-12-31: 01:40:00
And Happy New Year to you! Alas, poor Donna is a creature of conviction! - Nosila, 2009-12-31: 11:01:00
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Reviate
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: REE-vee-eyt
Sentence: Gunther's proclivity to reviate was chief among the concerns of the local constabulary. No way was he being left alone with any more cadavers.
Etymology: re + deviate
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COMMENTS:
erk. don't want to speculate on this one. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 03:32:00
Was it him, or the cadavers, that made him neuerrotic? - Stevenson0, 2007-06-07: 08:52:00
blame the victim! it's not the cadavers' fault they're irresistible. - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 09:09:00
Had they not been wearing so little... - Clayton, 2007-06-07: 18:15:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy! ~ James
jadenguy - 2007-06-07: 08:49:00
I only made the word because I really wanted a word to use to describe this. In hindsight, I probably should have also tried to come up with one... This wont' be the last time that happens.
evan - 2008-07-30: 11:59:00
Uh, wouldn't this qualify as 'Addiction?'
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy. ~ James
no word right now - but the drawing cracked me up again!!