Verboticism: Defactualize
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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Pretendshuhsh
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pree/tend/sh/huh/sh
Sentence: Sally was so pretendshuhsh that she would never acknowledge recognizing the employee at the liquor store who routinely pushed her heavily laden cart around the store.
Etymology: pretend + huh? + shush + hush + pretentious
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COMMENTS:
Great combo. Great word. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:55:00
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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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Selectdumb
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: See lekt dumb ...
Sentence: Barey put on his swim suit, threw a towel over his shoulder, and headed out the door of his luxury suite in the swankest hotel in town. As he was entering the lobby, the desk clerk, Sally, saw him. Sally hurried to him, catching him in the middle of the lobby. "Sir, you can't wear your swim suit in the lobby" She admonished. Without saying a word, he took off his swim suit and handed it to her. Barey, naked, proceeded to the pool. After several complaints from other guests about the incident, the manager called Sally into his office. "You are in serious trouble and may lose your job. What did you say to Barey in the lobby, that made him take off his swim suit and give it to you?" Sally decided her only chance to keep her job, was to practice careful selectdumb. Sally replied, "Barey who? What swimsuit? What are you talking about?"
Etymology: SELECTION, DUMB. // SELECTION - a careful choosing, especially when choosing what to remember. // DUMB - as in playing dumb, pretending not to know/remember.
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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Oliberate
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: o-lib-er-ate
Sentence: Rather than obliterating his vanquished foe, the commander-in-chief demonstrated his ultimate coolness by oliberating him instead. With the whole world watching, he took the high road, though he had to clear a lot of brush off it because it had been untraveled for so long. If only he knew someone who was good at clearing brush. Oh yeah, not going to go there.
Etymology: A twist on the word obliterate, to incorporate liberate and to pay tribute to the O of the mOment.
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COMMENTS:
Well-crafted endings ... of both sentence and etymology! Oliberate is such a highly hopeful word. Obama has inferred comparisons to Lincoln, MLK, Kenedy and so many others, so I also thought it very clever that this brings to mind The Great Liberator, Simon Bolivar. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 01:36:00
Good word and interesting sentence, good wordplay! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:14:00
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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.
Shiftyeyenesia
Created by: youngin105
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When someone has been caught pretending to have forgotten an embarrassing event: 'God, what a shiftyeyenesiac!'
Etymology: Shifty-eye: motion associated with guilt and/or embarrassment + nesia: the latter part of 'amnesia'.
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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Dubbayude
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dub ba yewd
Sentence: When asked by Katie Couric, what was his most emBaracksing moments leading up to winning the election, Obama said it was admitting that he followed GWB into the White House. When asked why he would find that emBaracksing, Obama said he lacked the knack of making up his own words and their meanings and that he had virtually no experience invading foreign countries and making them hate his fellow Americans! He felt like a school janitor. That meant he dubbayude mopping up the verbal diarrhea and intellectual constipation he found himself surrounded by and cleaned up for the next time. You see, he was just Biden his time up until now!
Etymology: dubba (George W. Bush's nickname, one of the kinder ones; also means double) & You'd (you would, too!)
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COMMENTS:
luv the way you play with words and ideas! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 01:06:00
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