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DEFINITION: To be so obsessed with your own cleverness and wittiness that you don't listen to what anyone else is saying, let alone understand them.
Verboticisms
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Rapiertwit
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ray-pee-uhr-twit
Sentence: I had just told Bob that his cat had died and expected him to be upset, but he was such a rapiertwit that he began making dead cat jokes.
Etymology: rapier wit, twit
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COMMENTS:
twit to who? - galwaywegian, 2007-07-06: 05:48:00
Say bah! Foiled again in my epeenion. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:47:00
I think Bob was a rapiershit to make dead cat jokes. That does say crap crap in the cartoon though - hmmm - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 13:24:00
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Loudshoulder
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈlaʊd ˈʃoʊldɚ/
Sentence: I was trying to explain the trainee's new duties, but he gave me the loud shoulder, repeatedly making doody puns.
Etymology: As in "cold shoulder," only with "loud" instead of "cold"
Egolalia
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: EE go LAY lee uh
Sentence: I couldn't get a word in over his egolalia.
Etymology: "ego" self and -lalia "speaking" (see glossolalia - speaking in tongues)
Narcissilly
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: nar-sis-sillie
Sentence: ever since he got that 100 on his test, he's been prancing around acting all narcissilly
Etymology: narcissistic + silly
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COMMENTS:
not much thought put into this sorrie - loofarama, 2007-07-06: 12:07:00
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Crap
Egoaunderstanding
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: ee-go-ay-uhn-der-st-an-ding
Sentence: He was so egoaunderstanding that all his friends went to seek someone who would listen and perceive the meaning of what they were saying.
Etymology: From the word ego meaning conceit and self-importance and a meaning without and understanding meaning to perceive the meaning of
Begwilde
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: bee-gwiyld
Sentence: he'd become so begwilde he felt like even his burps were quoteable social satire
Etymology: beguiled, oscar wilde
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COMMENTS:
sounds a bit like Oscar's brother Tony! like it. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-06: 07:37:00
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Comments:
MisUndrstd - 2007-07-06: 20:40:00
Say it three times fast... go ahead... I dare ya!
Jabberwocky - 2007-07-06: 23:40:00
tried it - don't get it - but I think the cartoons this week have been excellent - way to go Franke James!!! and your essays are fabulous!