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DEFINITION: n. The moment of awareness when you realize that have you made a huge mistake on a big project, and will have to start all over again, from the very beginning. v. To suddenly realize that you are going to fail.
Verboticisms
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Exposeheh
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: ex/pose/hay
Sentence: It was a huge exposeheh when she realized he had said 'would you like to meet my wife' not 'would you like to be my wife'.
Etymology: expose + heh?
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COMMENTS:
Love it - reminds me of a very old song: "I can't get away to marry you today, cause my wife won't let me!" - Nosila, 2008-08-15: 23:15:00
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Devastartion
Created by: serendipity9000
Pronunciation: DEV-a-start-shun
Sentence: When I found that the turkey had burned to total blackness - that was when the devastartion sank in... out I went to buy a new turkey.
Etymology: A play on the word DEVESTATION - only with the word 'START' replacing the STAT in the middle to reference starting over.
Uthoeitis
Created by: guesser
Pronunciation: ut-oh-itis
Sentence: As she waited alone at the Alter, she realized she was experiencing uthoeitis.
Etymology:
Awerrorness
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ah wer ror ness
Sentence: We have all had that moment of awerrorness, when you just knew you had picked the wrong job or the wrong house or the wrong vehicle or the wrong person to share your life with. Marcia just had such a flash of awerrorness when her Dad walked her up the aisle to marry the love of her life, her high school sweetheart, John Brady. Even though they had been engaged forever, had 6 children together, owned a business and a big ranch home together, Marcia just knew at that very moment that life had way more to offer her than John could provide. Sure he was reliable, steady, a solid rock and oh so boring. She was after all a still vibrant and attractive 29 year old, with unfulfilled passions and ambitions. There were still places to visit, although John never wanted to leave the farm. There were still adventures to have, although John did not believe that life was meant to be lived in an exciting manner. Seeing her change in demeanour, her father squeezed her arm and whispered to her out of the side of his smiling mouth: "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia...wake up from your daydream and smile...many girls would love to become a member of the Brady Bunch!"
Etymology: Awe {an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)} & Awareness (having knowledge of) & Error (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;inadvertent incorrectness; a misconception resulting from incorrect information )
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COMMENTS:
Great tale:lol. Is John aka John-boy Walton - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-15: 18:40:00
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Eurekill
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: you-ree-kill
Sentence: My eurekill came when I realized that the problem I was solving relied on gravity pointing upward.
Etymology: eureka + kill
Fiascognition
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: fee-AS-kog-NISH-uhn
Sentence: Dirk put down his stylus, clasping his head and sobbing in a state of paralyzing fiascognition. Those images of albino squirrels weren't gonna un-Photoshop themselves.
Etymology: fiasco + cognition
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COMMENTS:
This is just clever! - texmom, 2007-05-18: 07:24:00
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Futilization
Created by: ldikarev
Pronunciation: fyoo til ee zation
Sentence: Moment of truth had come... and left, and nothing exploded. Feeling of futilization enveloped the somber group of would-be demolition men.
Etymology: futility +realization
Formatting
Created by: duchessella
Pronunciation: FOR-ma-ting
Sentence: Formatting of her wedding due to the groom coming out of the closet on stag night was devastating, so she formatted herself and went to become a nun.
Etymology: As in hard disk formatting in computers - due to a huge problem e.g. virus, you need to wipe everything off and restart from scratch.
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COMMENTS:
She was probably feeling a bit defragile after that. - petaj, 2007-05-17: 05:50:00
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Sodbodge
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: sod-bodge
Sentence: Sally sodbodged when she realised she hadn't turned on her computer before typing her thesis. Can also be used as a curse word, e.g. "Oh sodbodge!"
Etymology: Combines 'sod', as in 'Oh, sod it!' and 'bodge', as in a mistake or to do something quickly without care or expertise.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by two writers: Osomatic and erasmus. Thank you Osomatic and erasmus! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by erasmus. Thank you erasmus. ~ James
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