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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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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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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.
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
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)
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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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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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)
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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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)
Comments:
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!
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James