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'Crap! Crap!'

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.

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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"

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Blahblahblahniss

Created by: sarahizhott

Pronunciation: bl-ah-bl-ah-bl-ah-niss

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Booger

Created by: princess19sk8r

Pronunciation: boo grrr

Sentence: i found a booger which is green and comes out of your nose.

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Buffoonomania

Created by: HALibut

Pronunciation: buh-foon-oh-mey-nee-uh

Sentence: "The classic buffoonomaniac will make innapropriate jokes at weddings and funerals with little or no regard for how his jokes are received." - Studies on the Hysteriacal by Dr. Sigmund Freud

Etymology: < O.It. Buffa (jest) + < Gk. manía (madness)

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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

petaj 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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Smuggadly

Created by: debsro

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Klockonmi

Created by: fefefeha7

Pronunciation: Clock-on-me

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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

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Ocdisregard

Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Oh-see-diss-ree-guard

Sentence: He gets so full of himself and OCDisregards everyone around him, which isn't always the best thing, he being the brain surgeon and all.

Etymology: OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder... the "C" stands for "cleverness" in this case) + disregard (ignore)

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COMMENTS:

we used to have a self-centred cat like that. A real OCDopuss - galwaywegian, 2007-07-06: 05:05:00

petaj After treatment was the cat OCDogone? - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:51:00

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Conselfifide

Created by: Firrehawk99

Pronunciation: Con-self-i-fide

Sentence: YOUR CONSELFIFIED!!

Etymology: conceded + self and ified at the end....

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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!