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'Well Doc, will I ever be young again?'

DEFINITION: v. To spend years and years wishing you could be young again, only to discover that it's actually happening, but not exactly as you imagined. n. The fear the you are getting so old that people will start treating you like a baby

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Regretssion

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: rE-gret-shun

Sentence: Tom, at the age of 99, felt regretssion that he couldn't compete in this year's Ironnman.

Etymology: regression/regret

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gret word toadstool - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 16:39:00

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Retroturing

Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: ret trow tour ing

Sentence: Herbert found himself retroturing into an 60 year old in the day care center.

Etymology: retro - looking back uring - the second half of maturing

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Unkindrewind

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: un kynd ree wynd

Sentence: James had a daydream his whole life that he would never get old. As each decade past though, people he thought of as old in his younger days were now his peers or younger. Instead of saying "Wow, she's at least 50 and ancient." He would now say, "Hey, she's only 50/60/70/80 or 90 and looks great!" He knew he was getting old when he started going to more funerals than weddings and he read the obits every day in the paper to make sure he was not listed there. Although his mind was still young and foolish, his body started to betray him. Going to his doctor every week was now a social activity, one that he would use in conversations with, well, anybody ("You should see the size of my prostrate!) This once lively and exhuberant man was now experiencing the unkindrewind syndrome. Yep, his fountain of youth was drying up...he had taken a stroll through the Disenchanted Forest never to return...he wouldn't buy green bananas, in case they couldn't ripen in time! His latter years would be spent regressing mentally and physically until, with no family or friends around, he'd be left to the mercy of a temporary foreign worker nurses' aide who did not speak English. A nice enough lady who would cheerfully spoonfeed him with a clean bib at each meal, wipe his nose (and other parts), teach him to try and speak again and change his diapers. He thought she was his Mom...

Etymology: Unkind(lacking kindness;lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy ;circumstances that cause suffering) & Rewind (to go backwards;to reverse)& play upon "Please be kind and rewind" stickers that video shops placed on VHS tapes.

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COMMENTS:

Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-15: 06:02:00

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Geriatricks

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: jerry/a/triks

Sentence: Geriatricks is a miserable joke played on people in the prime of life

Etymology: geriatrics + tricks

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Dependaby

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: dah - pend - ay - bee

Sentence: Old Tom loved most aspects of growing old, more time with family, playing golf, long walks with no destination, if only he could stop the dependaby transformation.

Etymology: Depends (diapers) - baby (infant), antonym of dependable

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Desidorianate

Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: di-si-DAWR-ee-uhn-eyt

Sentence: It was twenty full years before Jake realized that his desidorianation had come into conflict with his dreams of retiring by fifty.

Etymology: desiderate + Dorian Gray

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COMMENTS:

Too bad nobody told him at the doriantation - I guess it was a bit of a gray area - porsche, 2007-06-21: 11:54:00

Great word Clayton! Made me run to the dictionary. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 12:15:00

wilde sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 15:52:00

Heh. I oughta win an Oscar. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 20:09:00

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Sourgripes

Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: saoor griipz

Sentence: Henderson was our greatest success in the field of unoldenization. Degerontigising is not without it's foibles. The greatest shock comes when they lose their will to vote and decide to rebel against the man, but that's just sour gripes from a lack of social security checks.

Etymology: sour grapes + gripe

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unoldenization sounds good to me - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 12:29:00

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Youthanize

Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: u/thin/ize

Sentence: Every Thanksgiving, Grandpa would squeeze into his college football jersey and challenge all his "grandboys" to a little game of the "pigskin." The family thought all his youthanizing was a healthy thing, so they not only encouraged the after dinner shenanigans, but they even shouted, "TOUCHDOWN" when he tossed the pigskin in the hoop.

Etymology: Origin: Euthanize-Mercy killing to prevent a prolonged and painful death. :-)

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Nappiarch

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: NAP-ee-ahrk

Sentence: Bob yearned to be young again and the leader of the pack; but instead this greying sexageranium [sic] - he certainly was "wilting" fast - was doomed only to nappiarch in a palzheimer's paradise in dwinetime with fellow mewlthuselahs

Etymology: NAPPY: garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [syn: diaper] & PATRIARCH: A very old, venerable man; an elder; Also used figuratively. DWINETIME: dwine OE (dwinan). to wasteor pine away, fade, languish, & wither, wane. MEWLTHUSELAH (mewl): to cry, as a young child & methuselah.

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great blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:22:00

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Reverage

ohwtepph

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: reh - ver - rayzh

Sentence: The reverage was worse than anyone's ever seen. His teeth fell out and it was the last of his pork diet.

Etymology: reverse + age + leverage

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-21: 01:38:00
Today's definition was inspired by Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback, and the never-ending search for the magic pill that will make you young again. The funny thing is that when the rejuvenation does happen in the real world, it's usually a disaster -- and a source for inspiration. Thanks Rob! ~ James

ivonce - 2008-08-18: 09:40:00
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