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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.

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Compulstuped

Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: com-pul-stooped

Sentence: Rob Dimbulb has this bad habit of being compulstuped by the easiest of tasks.

Etymology: "Compul" - Taken from part of the word Compulsive: Psychology Caused or conditioned by compulsion or obsession. "(Stup)-ed" Taken from part of the word Stupid: Slow to learn or understand; obtuse. Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes. Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless.

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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.

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Redoofus

artr

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:

mrskellyscl funny...love it - mrskellyscl, 2009-12-31: 06:05:00

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Brainfart

Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Fauxcycle

Created by: elemon

Pronunciation: foh-sicle

Sentence: Maeve is totally caught in a dating fauxcycle -- have you seen her latest prize?

Etymology: faux (Fr: "faux pas" -- missed steps); OE: "cycle" -- go round and round)

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petaj Sounds like Maeve's situation is farcicle. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 22:33:00

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Errennial

Trystera

Created by: Trystera

Pronunciation: air-IN-ee-ull or ur-IN-ee-ul

Sentence: Duane errennially spent his weekly pay on lottery tickets.

Etymology: Err + perennial

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COMMENTS:

Trystera Ok, so it's neither of the suggested parts of speech. I like it anyway. - Trystera, 2007-06-07: 17:56:00

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Redoboo

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Ree-doo-boo

Sentence: After the same question for the past two hours, his constant redoboos made us change the question. We sadly don't believe he will ever figure out how to open the door.

Etymology: Redo (to do over) + booboo (a mistake)

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Repligress

Created by: iago150

Pronunciation:

Sentence: After the fourth slap in the face, he realized that he was just repligressing.

Etymology: Replicate + trangress

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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

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Arrbeeaye

petaj

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:

petaj 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

petaj 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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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-07: 00:01:00
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?'

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-12-31: 00:05:00
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy. ~ James

libertybelle libertybelle - 2011-05-11: 10:39:00
no word right now - but the drawing cracked me up again!!