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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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Redoofus
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rēdoōfəs
Sentence: Eric is a redoofus. He doesn*t mean to make the same mistakes over and over. It*s just that he is a very habitual person. Once he has goofed twice, he has developed a reflex. Even when he has time to ponder a decision, he overthinks it and usually corrects the correction back to the error.
Etymology: redo (do something again or differently) + doofus (a stupid person)
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COMMENTS:
funny...love it - mrskellyscl, 2009-12-31: 06:05:00
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Sturepitity
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: stoo.re.pi.ti.tee
Sentence: I can't believe this guy. This is the seventh ticket he got this month for parking his car in the fountain in front of the town hall. He says he very much likes the fact that it is so clean afterwards
Etymology: stupidity+repetitive
Decorrigible
Created by: jadenguy
Pronunciation: DEE cor ridg ib ul
Sentence: It's not often that we get to stare into the Sun and feel good about it after, and this certainly wasn't one of those times for Darian. His decorrigibility still astounded his brother on new levels, his rIcarus feat less successful with the assistance of plexiglass eyewear.
Etymology: de + corrigible de is pretty obvious. i picked corrigable, because i think that once you've made the mistake, you can learn from it, but then you unlearn from it and commit it again, so that's how you know it's stupid even when you repeat it.
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COMMENTS:
your sentences are like riddles jadenguy - it takes me ages to figure them out - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-07: 11:28:00
in a...good way? - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 14:57:00
definitely in a good way - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-07: 16:44:00
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Repetardation
Created by: mopez81
Pronunciation: reh pe tard ay shun
Sentence: "As I drank my thirteenth pint of the afternoon, I knew that this repetardation would do me no good."
Etymology:
Duhhplicate
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: DUHH-PLIH-KATE
Sentence: Rosco stepped out of the minimum security correctional facility into the pounding sun.Sitting at the bus stop with his cardboard suitcase, he now had to admit that he might just "suck at life"...After three failed marriages and encounters with every known STD, he began to consider that his past dating choices may not have been the best.Foxy english professors were his weakness,but he also harbored a soft spot for lady charter boat captains,tattooed carny babes, radical Irish lassies, Goth chicks and women in any stage of recovery.But his moment of enlightenment passed like a partial eclipse,and his loneliness overtook him yet again. He would rent a room,hold up a gas station and look up his old flame Babs....Yes, that's the ticket! He was sure she'd take him back, and together they could DUHHPLICATE all the great times they had before he got cirrohsis and she fell off the Harley.Yes! Yes! Rosco would DUHHPLICATE his old life-only this time he wouldn't get caught. A cloud of dust enveloped the inter-city bus as it stopped in front of him,and then he saw her stumble off: the most radiant creature ever to corner the nose ring market....
Etymology: DUH+DUPLICATE DUH:der ofr
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COMMENTS:
http://zoomquilt.org/ - metrohumanx, 2008-07-30: 01:16:00
Who doesn't love a tatooed carny babe? :) - lumina, 2008-07-30: 04:03:00
Never a DUHll moment, eh? - Nosila, 2008-07-30: 20:59:00
Rosco was a duhhfus - Mustang, 2008-07-30: 22:14:00
I kike it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-31: 02:25:00
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Recerring
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ree kehrring
Sentence: these hangovers were a recerring problem
Etymology: recurring erring
Redumbdant
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: re-dum-dent
Sentence: I know that eating an entire bag of salt and vinegar chips is going to leave me with a belly ache and a stinging mouth as it's done every other time, but I just can't help being redumbdant.
Etymology: redundant + dumb. Also - i love love the drawing - made me lololol
Mispeat
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: Miss pete
Sentence: He mispeat the misspelled word.
Etymology: mis - wrong peat - tail end of repeat
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!!