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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.
Inappretension
Top verboticism of the day created by Clayton
Pronunciation: in-ap-ri-TEN-shuhn
Sentence: Many think that Gloria's inappretension reached its apogee when she kept referring to Carl Sagan as Bob Saget.
Etymology: inapprehension + pretension
Created by: Clayton.
Comments:
In a pretence too. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:49:00
I'll pretense I didn't hear that. - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 12:49:00
now that would be pretenshush - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 13:04:00
Guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, ya gotta help me. I keep thinking that I'm going to tell you, 'I'm a wigwam, I'm a teepee,' and then you're gonna say..." Shrink cuts him off with a heaving sigh and says, "I've got you on a 9:30 next Wednesday. You're pre tents." - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 18:40:00
I think that would be clutching at straw huts - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 23:37:00
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Ocdisregard: /Oh-see-diss-ree-guard/ 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) Created by: ziggy41.
Comments:
we used to have a self-centred cat like that. A real OCDopuss - galwaywegian, 2007-07-06: 05:05:00
After treatment was the cat OCDogone? - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:51:00
Narcissismug: /nae-SIS-suh-smug/ Irving was constantly trying to top his own wordplay. In fact, he was so Narcissismug, that when Alan yelled "Quick! Call 911" he glibly replied, "Here 911! Here boy!" Etymology: narcissism, smug Created by: Alchemist.
Comments:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 09:29:00
Mindiac: /mindddiiac/ My name is Carl and I´m a mindiac Etymology: mind, maniac Created by: gonzo.
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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!