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DEFINITION: v. To ignore conventional wisdom and traffic rules by walking in areas normally restricted to motor vehicles. n. An aggressive pedestrian who feels it is their god-given right to walk in the middle of the road.
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Gnghfjygfj
Created by: uiiuiu
Pronunciation: ghuf-fghfg-vfg
Sentence: ftyhfh
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
paynis - uiiuiu, 2014-12-02: 18:10:00
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Hemicerebro
Created by: 536633
Pronunciation: heh-mee-ser-ee-bro
Sentence: "That brainless guy walking in the middle of the street is a regular hemicerebro!"
Etymology: "hemi"- half or partly, "cerebro"- brain
Pestestrian
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pestestrēən
Sentence: Motorists get angry enough when another driver does something stupid that backs traffic up. They really get steamed when a self-important pestestrian with an I-dare-you-to-hit-me attitude decides to cross the street in the middle of the block.
Etymology: pest (an annoying person or thing; a nuisance) + pedestrian (a person walking along a road or in a developed area)
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2010-09-13: 06:08:00
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Suisidewalk
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: soo-ih-syde-wok
Sentence: He sure does love to suisidewalk. Maybe we should buy him a helmet instead of a car.
Etymology: Suicide + Sidewalk
Dysanthropdiaterra
Created by: rianna
Pronunciation: dis-an-thow-pa-dat-erra
Sentence: The dysanthropdiaterra walked through the road with out even looking both ways because he felt he had the right of way.
Etymology: dys-bad anthrop-man, human dia-through, across terra-land
Pedesastrian
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: ped es ass tri an
Sentence: She'd seldom seen pedesatrians bare-foot their way through the busy drive-thru (when the store front was nearly empty)! She tersely told him, "No barefoot pedesastrians in the drive thru lane"! Cars behind him honked. The man didn't seem to care. She reluctantly watched him proudly, mechanically, pad his feet onto the busy six-lane road, his soles black with car exhaust. This pedesastrian was even ignoring the red light! AHHHH!
Etymology: From the words pedestrian, ass and disaster. A person who unwisely or unknowingly, travels by foot on vehicle-only routes, often to disastrous consequences.
Ilgnomonics
Created by: 796063
Pronunciation: Il-nom-in-ics
Sentence: The man who held up a metal pole during a lightning storm displayed a keen sense of ilgnomonics.
Etymology: il (without), gnomon (knowledge), ics (knowledge)
Hikerchick
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: hi - kur - chik
Sentence: Betty had recently became a hikerchick... She walked everywhere, even in places where only vehicles should be allowed; but no one could stop her.
Etymology: play on bikerchick also hiker and chick.
Ignorambulator
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ig-nor-AM-buhl-ayt-ehr
Sentence: Seemingly unaware of traffic laws or of the fact that he was impeding traffic as well as endangering his very life, Wilbur continued on, the unmindful ignorambulator, leaving cursing motorists in his wake.
Etymology: Blend of 'ignorant' (lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact) and 'ambulator' (One who walks about; a walker)
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COMMENTS:
Ignoramulator has great "texture"...I was leaning toward something ambulatory, too. Nice word, Mustango! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-02: 05:47:00
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-02: 10:16:00
Also a perfect blend of ignoramus and ambulator! Great create! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-02: 10:39:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James