Verboticism: Antitain

'I'll make everyone erase their hard drives!'

DEFINITION: v. To enthusiastically tell and share a lame joke with an unwilling audience. n. A person who does not realize that their sense of humor is not appreciated and laughs loudly at their own jokes.

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Antitain

Created by: davem

Pronunciation: "Anti" 'i' pronounced 'eye'; 'tain' rhymes with 'main)

Sentence: To John, who had not seen Monty Python's Search For the Holy Grail, Eric's constant, giggling intonations of "burn her! she's a witch!" and "we are the Knights who say Ni!" and other lines of Pythonese amounted to back-breaking antitainment.

Etymology: Anti (the opposite, as in antithesis) tain, truncated form of "entertainment."

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Comments: Antitain

janebrowne - 2008-04-01: 12:17:00
Wonderful wit! And quite true about people spoiling the fun by taking humor out of its rightful context. Well named.

stache - 2008-04-01: 16:01:00
nicely done. good that you put a clear pronunciation guide-my first thought was anTIshen.