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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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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.
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)
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)
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)
Duhnial
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: duh-NYL
Sentence: Sheena 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' and 'denial'
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COMMENTS:
A word of great duhplicity! Exduhllent! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-14: 11:46:00
Duhlightful, Mustang! - Nosila, 2009-04-14: 20:23:00
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Flubberup
Created by: memyselfandbo
Pronunciation: fluh-ber-up
Sentence: As Neal looked on, Mandy committed an embarrassing flubberup by tweezing her eyeball instead of her eyelash. Ouch.
Etymology: Flub: to make a mess of. Cover-up: a device or strategy for covering/concealing.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! - Mustang, 2009-04-14: 23:40:00
Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 01:29:00
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Idioticconsealer
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: i-dē-ˈä-tik-kən-ˈsēl-lər
Sentence: Barbie was curling her eyelashes when she answered a phone call... then,propped the phone on her shoulder and against her ear...she had her eyelash curler in one hand, squeezing it tightly to curl her lashes...Barbie bent over to pick up her mirror on the table with her free hand and the phone fell off her shoulder! She tried to catch the phone as it fell and she accidently jerked ALL of her eyelashes completely out of her eye! Ed says," Barbie your eye is bleeding!" To which Barbie replies,"Oh Ed it's fine I have no lashes...I'll just use my "idioticconsealer", it works on all of my blunders and I'll apply a little extra liner after my eye stops bleeding. Ed,is just stares in horror at Barbie and just wishes she had a brain and wasn't such an "idioticconsealer!" so often and won't ever admit her mistakes!
Etymology: Idiotic:showing complete lack of thought or common sense:foolish. Concealer:(Double meaning & play on the two meanings) 1 : one that conceals 2 : a cosmetic used to conceal blemishes or discoloration especially around or under the eyes...(Wink,Wink) ;)
Hubristle
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: hew-brihs-el
Sentence: Brianna Sultana was a famous actress. Adam was the director of her latest play. Unfortunately, Brianna had become a bit of a prima donna and Adam was sick of pampering her: constructive criticism or even simple suggestions of any kind would cause her to hubristle, usually resulting in some damage to the set or herself. She always said "My show must go on," and offered no apologies for any of her antics. Brianna had stormed off to her dressing room after Adam, sure he would lose his job, had said, "Take the beam out of your own eye, so you can help me take the speck out of my eye." He didn't know she would take him literally.
Etymology: HUBRIS, meaning excessive self-confidence, arrogance + BRISTLE, meaning to react in an angry, offended manner
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)
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)
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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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)
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)
Lackcident
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lak sid dent
Sentence: The upper management at the Quick Letter Company, who made big signs, brought in a new edgy Health and Safety Program designed to reduce the injury rate at their manufacturing facility. They offered rewards like cash, merchandise and paid days off as incentives to those employees who had few or no missed days due to workplace injuries. The theory was great, the company would get compensation rebates for no lost times and raise safety awareness. The lost time days vanished and it appeared that they had broken all previous safety records on the job. It soon became evident, however, that people failed to report the work injuries in the hope of winning fabulous prizes. People smuggled in their own first aid kits and treated themselves secretly as each mishap occurred, and failed to report them. The management should have been more suspicious of employees with staples stuck in their fingers, nails protruding from feet and all manner of bruises and bumps not visible earlier in the day. The common response to "What happened to you?" was "It happened at home." Since they could prove no corruption of their program, it continued, with all it's suspicious events. Everything was fine until one day, when someone drove a forklift too quickly into a company sign and one of the metal letters in the words "Quick Letter Company" fell from a high height on a manager's head, embedded itself in his cranium and reduced him to a blinded, blethering fool. Yes, having a lackcident is fun until someone loses an "i"!
Etymology: Lack (not have, be without) & Accident (a mishap; especially one causing injury or death)
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COMMENTS:
I luved the sleye, witty, w-I's-e ending! Your lacksIdental story and verbotomy caught my aye! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-14: 11:35:00
What a great mind's "I" you have Nosila! :) I enjoyed your story! - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-17: 03:32:00
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Dismembermeant
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: dis-mem-ber-meant
Sentence: Rosie would always pretend that her obviously self inflicted bruises and scrapes were no big deal. When she walked into a wall she tried to pass off the black and blue mark as makeup for her performance. When she had a burn mark from making a roast she said that she wanted to get a tatoo and thought she'd see what it looked like first. But the day she came in with two fingers missing after playing with the dog there was no way she could pass it off as dismembermeant.
Etymology: dismember(ment): to lose a limb, sever, amputate + meant: intended, purposeful
Abjury
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ab-jury
Sentence: The scars from Iris's abjury were clearly evident on her face, yet, she had so strongly denied it that there was no recognition of them when she looked in the mirror nor any recollection of her stabbing herself in the eye as she tried to defrost the fridge with an ice pick.
Etymology: abjure (forswear) + injury
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COMMENTS:
Abjurlutely fabulous - Nosila, 2009-04-14: 20:21:00
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Oneyedeneyer
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: wun + ahyd + dee + niur
Sentence: Rosemary was clumsy and ashamed to admit that she walked into walls, tripped over air and ripped her skin off when she shaved. But the day she took out her eye tweezing her eyebrows made her a oneyedeneyer..... Despite the fact that she was missing an eye, she could not bring herself to admit that she had done it herself and went into oneyedenial....
Etymology: one + eyed + deny + denier (spelled to match the missing eye)...
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COMMENTS:
We are keeping an eye on you...just the one! - Nosila, 2009-04-14: 20:20:00
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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)
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