Verboticism: Granddiculer

'When I was your age, all I had was a lead pencil and a wooden brain!'

DEFINITION: A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity.

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Granddiculer

Created by: bigbigjeff

Pronunciation: grand-dic-you-ler

Sentence: My father was such a granddicular. Constantly talking about his childhood plight, how his parents made him wear concrete shoes.

Etymology: Grand- old or great, diculer from ridiculous for absurd or innane

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