Verboticism: Washingone
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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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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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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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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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'.
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.
Forgetwit
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fərgetwit
Sentence: As he took up the mantle of his new job, Barry took the high road and chose to ignore the blunders of his predecessor — to forgetwit. It was not an easy thing to do.
Etymology: forget (fail to remember) + twit (fool)
Magnabuncogentleapsimous
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: mag-nuh-bun-CO-gentle-APSE-ih-muss (magnabuncogentleapsimist)
Sentence: Everyone thought the churlish knave deserved the attentions of the Spanish Inquisition, but the guy in charge was far too MAGNABUNCOGENTLEAPSIMOUS to agree. Better to let history decide when all the VOTES ARE IN. After all, it's not like he MADOFF with everyone's money and lounges around chuckling in a COMFY CHAIR whilst gazing down from his multi-million dollar aerie.
Etymology: MAGNAnimous+ BUNco +COGEnt +geNTLE +lAPSE +magnamIMOUS= MAGNABUNCOGENTLEAPSIMOUS MAGNANIMOUS:showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind;Latin magnanimus, from magnus great + animus spirit.....BUNCO:a swindling game or scheme,anything patently false;perhaps alteration of Spanish banca bench, banking, bank in gambling, from Italian.....COGENT:appealing forcibly to the mind or reason,having power to compel or constrain;Latin cogent-, cogens, present participle of cogere to drive together, collect, from co- + agere to drive.....GENTLE:tractable , docile,free from harshness, sternness, or violence,chivalrous,honorable, distinguished,suited to a person of high social station;Middle English gentil, from Anglo-French, from Latin gentilis of a gens, of one's family, from gent-gens, nation; akin to Latin gignere to beget,..... LAPSE:a slight error typically due to forgetfulness or inattention,a temporary deviation or fall especially from a higher to a lower state;Latin lapsus, from labi to slip.....IMOUS: a little-known peripheral device developed by Apple whose production was suddenly termina... strike that last one from the record.
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COMMENTS:
Sorry- no "leap" involved...unless it's voluntarily onto the pavement below. - metrohumanx, 2009-01-22: 06:04:00
Interesting word, m, although way too short! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:11:00
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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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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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