Verboticism: Shambush
DEFINITION: v. To pretend to forget an embarrassing act or event. n. A person who pretends to forget embarrassing moments or actions.
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Electamnesia
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: e LEKT am NEE zha
Sentence: The leader was told that if he was asked any questions that might embarrass him to just use his electamnesia strategy.
Etymology: SELECT: choose ELECT: choose or to select by vote AMNESIA: to forget
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COMMENTS:
Got my vote...but I can't remember. - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:20:00
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Recollectchump
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: rek oll ek tshump
Sentence: He went from election to recollectchump in mid oath.
Etymology: recollection, chump
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COMMENTS:
Well-said. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:54:00
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Shambush
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Sham-bush
Sentence: Asked what it felt like to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor the new president cleverly avoided the question by faking a shambush and pretending he didn't know who the interviewer was talking about.
Etymology: Sham(fake) + Bush(Surname of the previous president of the USA)
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COMMENTS:
Cleverly crafted sentence! Avoiding the press's ambush with shambush! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 11:04:00
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-22: 12:38:00
Oh, my...wish I'd seen this before I used up all my votes! Love it. - readerwriter, 2009-01-22: 16:20:00
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Feigngotten
Created by: GlobalGallery
Pronunciation: Fayn-got-ten
Sentence: "Are you fit to hold a drivers licence? How many other accidents have you caused?", asked the curious reporter from the Channel 6 News Team. "None!" barked the heiress, wobbly on her feet. Clearly she'd feigngotten about the two other luxury sedans she had written off earlier that December.
Etymology: 1.Feign - to pretend. 2.Forgotten - unable to be recalled.
Washingone
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: wash - ing - gone
Sentence: When in Washington, it is often to your advantage to play Washingone when you are asked too many questions about which you are unsure of the "best" answers to; especially when you are asked by media representatives who will broadcast your responses to be seen by millions of viewers.
Etymology: Wash + Washing + Washington + Gone --- Wash(ing) (the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water;Taking a buffer and running it through a filter of some sort. The result will (more often than not) be cleaner and more pleasing than the original) - Washington (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia) - Gone (destroyed or killed)
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COMMENTS:
Sometimes those in DC also inspires Wishingone! Capital create! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:52:00
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Defactualize
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: de/fak/choo/al/ize
Sentence: All politicans, from the lowliest elected, to the President of the United States, must be able to defactualize certain happenings in order to be diplomatic and appear inclusive, accepting and tolerant of all people and situations.
Etymology: DEFACTUALIZE - verb - from DE (added to form verbs applying removal, or reversal) + FACT (something that actually happened, or exists) + ACTUALIZE (actual; to realize in action)
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COMMENTS:
Superb sentence and word! Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was some way to deactivate those who defactualize? - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 11:01:00
Great word...like when we unhire someone at work, we decruit them! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:16:00
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Chagret
Created by: jajsr
Pronunciation: Sha-gr-ette
Sentence: When asked about the former President's news conference, President Obama conveniently chagretted the incident.
Etymology: Mixture of "chagrin" - disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment or failure; and "forget" - to lose the remembrance of.
Whodat
Created by: otherguy
Pronunciation: hoōdat
Sentence: When John took over from the dolt who used to do his job he developed a whodat attitude, acting as if he didn't even know what had been done in the past or the people who had done it.
Etymology: Who: what or which person or people + that: used to identify a specific person or thing observed by the speaker (a play on Who's that? a question you might ask if you are trying to forget someone)
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COMMENTS:
Simple. To the point. I like it. - artr, 2009-01-22: 06:44:00
nice - galwaywegian, 2009-01-22: 14:31:00
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Blunderhush
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Bluhn-der-HUHSH
Sentence: Even though the weather forecaster warned of a hot day ahead, we looked forward to our afaring to town. The train came along on time. But where would we sit? Not a seat to be found. Another stop; a further folk-throng squeeze themselves somehow through the doors into this airless "coffin". One stop from "heaven", a few sweaty, weary wayfarers alight, but still my 102 year old grandmother is standing. We arrive at where we want to be. As we stumble blindly from the train, the Minister of Transport, "undergoing the hardships" of daily travel, chirms from the platform," Did you all have a good trip." His thoughtless hooting is met with blunderhush; until gran's voice breaks the wordless still: " Better you give up your day job and go into selling saunas."
Etymology: Blunder : To bungle, botch act stupid & Hush: silence or quitness; to suppress mention of.
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COMMENTS:
tERRORific. Great granny! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:49:00
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Shamnesia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sham-NEEZ-ya
Sentence: Embarrassed at the prospect of actually revealing that he had been doing some personal 'research' on his predecessor, Barry instead created for himself, a state of shamnesia wherein he merely pretended that he knew nothing at all regarding the details of that 'research'.
Etymology: Blend of 'sham' (fake) and 'amnesia' (loss of a large block of interrelated memories)
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COMMENTS:
Can't understand why it isn't in common usage already! well done! - galwaywegian, 2009-01-22: 03:42:00
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