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DEFINITION: v. To deny that you have stupidly injured yourself for fear of punishment or ridicule. n. A person who won't admit it when they shoot themselves in the foot (which they seem to do quite often).
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Bluffoon
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: bluff oon
Sentence: There is no fool like an oaf fool. Clum Sy blundered and blustered around, often hitting his clunkhead and falling down. He was constantly embarrasssed by his lumpy and broken bonehead, black eyes, split lips, and an occasional broken nose, when he accidentally struck it, because he put it where it shouldn't be. Rather than admit he was just a bumpling box boy, he would pretend he was a boxer, and hoped no one would realize he was just a bluffoon.
Etymology: BLUFF, BUFFOON. BLUFF - try to mislead others about some thing. BUFFOON - a bumbling clumsy person, such people often unintentionally hurt themselves. Clowns often act this way to make people laugh and America's Funniest Home Videos tv show has lots of videos of buffoons. /// The first line contains the parody of oaf fool for old fool. /// His name Clum Sy is said clumsy. /// Clunkhead is a blending of the clunking a lunkhead takes. /// Bumpling is a blending of the bumps one gets when bumbling around. ///
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COMMENTS:
Great new words...love bumpling! - Nosila, 2009-04-14: 20:22:00
I know some oaf fools...been called one. Great word! - Mustang, 2009-04-14: 23:41:00
Love it! ROTFLMBO! B-B-B-BAA-foooon is on the bluff! being a Bluffoon! LOL! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-16: 19:16:00
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Oopsdenial
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: oŏpsdinīəl
Sentence: With a spoon still stuck up his nose, Harry is in a state of oopsdenial.
Etymology: oops (used to show recognition of a mistake or minor accident, often as part of an apology) + denial (the action of declaring something to be untrue)
Disamvowel
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dis am vow el
Sentence: Wendy was always the first to disamvowel when she had hurt herself accidentally. But when she accidentally poked her eye out, she made more of a spectacle of herself than usual.
Etymology: Disavow (deny;disclaim responsibility for) & Disembowel (remove innards)
Deadnial
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ded-nahy-uh
Sentence: Denise has always been known as a contrarian. Whatever the subject, she will be on the opposite side of any argument than the majority. Last week she was involved in a car accident. She was declared DOA when she arrived at the hospital. In a serious case of deadnial, she sat up and demanded to be seen by a doctor. As long as refuses to believe in her demise she will probably stay around to contradict the status quo.
Etymology: dead (no longer living) + denial (disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing)
Menodrama
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: mee no draw maw
Sentence: Fay had been clumsy child; and it was no different for her as an adult. In fact she’d become a skilled menodramatist, quick to deny her clumsy acts and carry on. Most times she was accident prone she’d make a menodramatic move to cover the damage.
Etymology: From: ME and NO or not, MELODRAMA. A person who is not melodramatic, especially about being clumsy.
Oopsadummy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: oŏpsēdəmē
Sentence: Most mothers are happy when their newborn has the requisite number of fingers and toes. Wendel's mother feels the need to take periodic inventory. Wendel is a klutz who has been teased to the point he hides his injuries to avoid ridicule. In doing this he has become an oopsadummy. She has only had to take to the ER once so far when he almost severed his arm with a blade server.
Etymology: oopsy-daisy (used to express encouragement to a child who has fallen) + dummy (a stupid person)
Disavouch
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dis a vowch
Sentence: Women torture themselves in the name of beauty. Wearing very high heels all day long and denying that your feet hurt. Getting hair extensions glued and twisted onto your scalp to pretend you have thick hair. Fake nails drilled onto your nailbed. When the pain becomes unbearable, we disavouch ourselves and bravely smile and continue looking glamourous. Afterall, being beautiful is to die for...
Etymology: Disavow (deny;refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with) & Ouch (expressing a feeling of sudden pain)
Disemvowelment
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dis em vow el ment
Sentence: When Ted found Wendy with her eye hanging out after an eye makeup accident, he was concerned. Her denial became a disemvowelment of the seriousness of her conditon. He reckoned they should call it misscara.
Etymology: Disavow (refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with) & Disembowelment (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)
Refutabuse
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ree-fewt-ah-beuse
Sentence: Usually after she refutabused herself she could piece herself back together swimmingly, but today after she dropped her eyeball on the floor, and after the cat ate it she realised that she should get some therapy.
Etymology: refute (deny) + abuse (injure)
Duhnial
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: duh-NYL
Sentence: Serena was da queena duhnial. She was clumsy, disorganized and more than a little uncoordinated and frequently injured herself or damage some item she was working with but would instantly duhny any serious damage had occurred.
Etymology: Blend of 'duh' (used to express actual or feigned ignorance or stupidity) and 'denial' ( refusal to admit the truth or reality)
Comments:
Verbotomy - 2009-04-14: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
abrakadeborah - 2009-04-16: 18:40:00
Metro is the MAN good definition! YOU are so creative! Cartoon is hilarious ! :) Thanks,I enjoyed this one!
Verbotomy - 2010-10-27: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James