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DEFINITION: v. To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation. n. An historical date which has been "adjusted" to fit present needs.
Verboticisms
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Spinchronise
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: spin - kron - eyes
Sentence: Tont Blair's capacity to spinchronise was demonstrated as he took the credit for a successful outcome to the First World war
Etymology: spin - to manipulate information for personal gain and chronise from the greek for time
Altarerioration
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: al tar ree er ayshun
Sentence: When Benny married Bertha, he made a slight altarerioration to their marriage date. They had been married overseas, without family present. Instead of November, he recorded it as April. This was just to make sure that their baby, Swen, looked like he was planned. The truth was that Benny had forgotten to go to the drugstore...
Etymology: Altar (a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made;where vows are exchanged in the church at a wedding) & Alteration (the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) & Ulterior (lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
Weaselwarping
Created by: kyotonils
Pronunciation: wee'•zel•wohr'•ping
Sentence: Don't bother telling the judge you never got the ticket in the mail. Weaselwarping never works.
Etymology: Weasel (sneaky, devious, as in "weasel words") + warp (time)
Anachronedit
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /&-'na-kr&-"ne-dit/
Sentence: Isaac Newton had trouble resisting the urge to anachronedit his publications on the calculus even though it might help him in his dispute with Leibnitz.
Etymology: From ana- + chrono- (as in "anachronism") + edit
Hackdate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hak dayt
Sentence: Who knew when computers were invented that we could illegally invade people's computer systems and change our lives. Because I could hackdate my employer's network, I improved my performance scores from last review; gave myself a bigger raise and had warnings placed in an enemy colleague's file. And best of all, I am now actually only 29...oh, no, I am going to have to work there longer now...Bummer!
Etymology: Hack (fix a computer program piecemeal until it works;electronically invade a computer site or system) & Backdate (make effective from an earlier date)
Historevision
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: histərēvizhən
Sentence: Jack is a master of historevision. He changes date like most people change their socks. He has changed his wedding date and his children’s birthdays numerous times to help his tax return. If you believe all the changes, his son who is about leave home for college, is 8 years old.
Etymology: history (the study of past events, particularly in human affairs) + revision (the action of revising)
Retroschedule
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: ret-row-skedj-yool
Sentence: To bypass all that red tape, Homer simply retroscheduled his date of birth.
Etymology: retro = past + schedule
Transmetation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: trans/ME/tey/shun
Sentence: Like Joseph Stalin, Fred had to rewrite his history. So Fred went through a transmetation, eliminating from his life all the dates and events which he didn't like.
Etymology: transmutation + me
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COMMENTS:
Works for me! - wordmeister, 2007-01-31: 09:55:00
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Comments:
allwise - 2007-01-31: 02:00:00
I think you'll win this one easy!
wordmeister - 2007-01-31: 10:42:00
Wow, "R" is the letter of the day!