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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.
Verboticisms
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Hiwaydum
Created by: Bughunt
Pronunciation: hi (rhymes with high) - way - dum
Sentence: The person was waiting for the man clearly expressing hiwaydum character to get out of the way. Though the food anagrism didn't help.
Etymology: HI + WAY + DUM. Root words: highway, high, way, dumbo, dumbness, dum
Anticedeped
Created by: kmeder
Pronunciation: anti-ceed-e-ped
Sentence: Tom drove down the road anticedeped, and ignored all those walking down the center of the road.
Etymology: against yield by foot
Deadestrian
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ded est reee an
Sentence: the deadestrian must have been an outofhisheadestrian to try crossing there.
Etymology: pedestrian dead
Orthopath
Created by: AMEE3
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
orthpath... - AMEE3, 2010-09-13: 12:28:00
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Antisophy
Created by: brocknem
Pronunciation: An-ti-sof-ee
Sentence: As the pedestrian was doing many Antisophy tasks, a burglar came up to him and shanked him.
Etymology: Anti- against -sophy - wise
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COMMENTS:
wooowww im quite shocked to be honest with you. - brocknem, 2010-09-13: 12:30:00
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Acure
Created by: pandaman
Pronunciation: a-cure
Sentence: He acures in the drive-thru.
Etymology: without care
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
Anthropolithomania
Created by: smepeoplechange
Pronunciation: An-throw-op-o-lith-o-man-e-a
Sentence: The Anthropolithomania was obssessed with walking upon the road.
Etymology: Anthropo- man, human lithio- stone, rock mania- excessive desire/mental aberration
Jayfarer
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: jay/fair/er
Sentence: The jayfarer caused havoc on the freeway this morning trying to dodge 100 mile per hour traffic.
Etymology: JAYFARER - noun - from JAYWALKER (to cross a street illegally or in a reckless manner) + WAYFARER (a pedestrian who walks from place to place on foot)
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COMMENTS:
He is a poor jayfaring stranger...travelling through this world of woe...(from the folk song, "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger." - readerwriter, 2009-03-02: 09:36:00
A farevorite! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-02: 10:29:00
nice - galwaywegian, 2009-03-02: 15:02:00
like it. - mweinmann, 2009-03-03: 07:52:00
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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