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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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Egotesticle
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eee go tesc ick ill
Sentence: His egotesticle behaviour, laughing uproariously at his own jokes and singing to himself while others spoke, left him isolated at breaktimes. He would often wonder (sometimes audibly)how so many lesbians managed to get a job with one company.
Etymology: egotistical, testicle
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COMMENTS:
you do have to give him some credit - he does have balls - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 06:11:00
Balldacious word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-06: 06:46:00
Aw, nuts... you guys beat me to it. - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 07:36:00
Don't get testy... - Alchemist, 2007-07-06: 08:06:00
cum on people... you'll all get the sac in minute...between this thread and good taste there is a vas deference - rikboyee, 2007-07-06: 08:12:00
HA! Sovary funny rik! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-06: 08:36:00
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Wilder wiener - oops sorry that's for Rikee's word - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 08:43:00
This gamete's pretty funny. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:44:00
So his brain was, where? In escrow Tom. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:56:00
As the wise Greek philosoper Epididymis once commented, "Don't let it all go to your head!" ;D - Kyoti, 2007-07-06: 10:57:00
As the wise Greek philosoper Epididymis once commented, "Don't let it all go to your head!" ;D - Kyoti, 2007-07-06: 11:01:00
Ummm... ignore one of those. Sighhh... - Kyoti, 2007-07-06: 11:03:00
Doesn't that make you gonad when you post a "set"? - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-06: 11:19:00
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Awetostruck
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: auto-struck
Sentence: Kenny was a cleverclogs to the nth degree and had spent so long in his own feedback loop of how astonishingly brilliant he was that he was now awetostruck and could not get words from his mouth before he was struck speechless by the wonder of the acuity, acumen, agility, alertness, aptitude and downright perspicacity of his own thoughts.
Etymology: awestruck (showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread) + auto (self)
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COMMENTS:
awetoshucks - you figured it out - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 08:45:00
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Draniti
Created by: rahullotli
Pronunciation: dra-niti
Sentence: stop being draniti
Etymology: kinkani-english
Overlylovingselfdisorder
Created by: charitybandgeek
Pronunciation: Over+ly+Loving+self+dis+order
Sentence: She has Overlylovingselfdisorder (olsd) Because she is so obsessed with your own cleverness and wittiness that you don't listen to what anyone else is saying, let alone understand them.
Etymology:
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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Egoignore
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ee-go-ig-norr
Sentence: Lately, Karl egoignored so much so that we named him egoignoramus of the month.
Etymology: ego + ignore
Narcissiquacious
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Nahr-siss-uh-kway-shuhs
Sentence: Gloria enjoyed the party immensely, mostly because it gave her the opportunity to trap people with her narcissiquacious stories about her very exciting life.
Etymology: Narcissist+Loquacious
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COMMENTS:
hey kyoti - welcome aboard - graet words this week - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 23:43:00
Great word, kyo! - amysmiles2000, 2007-07-07: 07:12:00
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Blairite
Created by: bazngill
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
As in Tony Bliar - bazngill, 2007-07-08: 05:08:00
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Crap
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!