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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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Duhnouement
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: duh noo mont
Sentence: The duhnouement was swift, painful and quite expensive.
Etymology: denouement, duh
Stunveilment
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: stun/vale/ment
Sentence: She was in a complete state of stunveilment when she realized the most important element of her dream wedding was missing - her shoes!
Etymology: unveilment (revelation) + stun (shock)
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COMMENTS:
A stunner! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-15: 18:27:00
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Recrap
Created by: benjamin
Pronunciation: re-krap
Sentence: Lets recrap shall we? You thought you could start a llama farm in Manhattan...?
Etymology: recap (go over) + crap (expression of dissatisfaction)
Refailation
Created by: pepperpatti
Pronunciation: re-fail-ation
Sentence: She had a huge refailation when three hours before her project was due, she discovered that she had gotten the directions all wrong
Etymology: Revelation: to realize some thing big. Fail: to flunk.
Qualmflash
Created by: Filthy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Amy had been planning to attend law school in the Fall, but after spending some time with actual lawyers during her internship, she began having doubts. Ha. Doubt is actually not the best way to describe it. It was more like a qualmflash--she suddenly saw the connection between all the uneasy feelings that had striken her during the semester; she would never be comfortable with the mores governing a law firm.
Etymology:
Alphoenixity
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: al-FEE-niks-i-tee
Sentence: Alphoenixity began for Roxie on her wedding day when, standing at the closed doors of St John's Church in Phoenix, Arizona, she was told she should be at St John's Church in Phoenix, Oregon.
Etymology: The state of ALPHA: being the dawning, beginning or outset of awareness that the PHOENIX must rise from the ashes of what has been, or is about to be, destroyed. ITY: the state, quality of being, abnormality.
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COMMENTS:
Oh - now I get it - nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-15: 10:38:00
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Fragpoint
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: frag plus point
Sentence: When the ship of dark shadows finally caught her she simply knew that she reached the fragpoint where all her dreams were BFG9000t to pieces...
Etymology: .Frag. from fragmentation, fragmented aka blasted to pieces plus .Breakpoint. the worst case for a point of no return ||| together FRAGPOINT. After that you feel SOULFRAGGED.
Dohredo
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Doe-ree-doo
Sentence: Harvey had spent hours transferring all his accounts onto spreadsheets ready for the tax inspector, unfortunately he experienced a dohredo when he realised he had forgotton to save his work before switching off his computer. Therefore he had to start from scratch all over again.
Etymology: Doh( a now popular word used when you realise you have made a big mistake, see Homer Simpson) + Redo( Start again)= Dohredo
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COMMENTS:
if that happened in a cookie factory it could be a dohredoreo - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-15: 10:39:00
If that happened in the days of "Wild West" it could have taken place on "The Streets Of Laredo" Though I guess Harvey's solution would have been to shot the tax inspector. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-15: 18:47:00
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Bonerevelation
Created by: shutz
Pronunciation: Bo-ner-rev-a-la-shun
Sentence: He had a bonerevelation when his boss remarked that his almost-complete project's plans used "double quotes" to designate measurements in 'feet'.
Etymology: From "boner", meaning a big mistake, and "revelation", the name of a particular section in the New Testament.
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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