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DEFINITION: v. To make the same mistake over and over again even though you know it's stupid. n. A compulsively repeated mistake.
Verboticisms
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Redididit
Created by: couv78
Pronunciation: Re-did-did-it (roll the d's)
Sentence: He done it one more time again. He redididit? yeah.
Etymology: from the drunkenese - to repeat foolishly
Repetiblunder
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: reh - PET - uh - blun - der
Sentence: Basil was pretty dense and seemed to miss the fact that once he made a mistake he was under no obligation to repetiblunder and repeat it over and over.
Etymology: Blend of repetitive or repetitious and blunder.
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COMMENTS:
Quite jolly! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-30: 17:23:00
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Compidiocy
Created by: Katoch
Pronunciation: com-PID-iocy
Sentence: With the police edging towards him and his friends, the pre-teen downed the alcohol as an act of compidiocy to hide the evidence.
Etymology: compulsive: Compelling: Enforces a need to take urgent action, usually an irational one. idiocy: Stupidity: Willful ignorance or unintelligence. Inacted together to form the somewhat cringeworthy yet humourous act of compidiocy.
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COMMENTS:
Cringeworthy ! Hahahahaha ! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-31: 00:44:00
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Reviate
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: REE-vee-eyt
Sentence: Gunther's proclivity to reviate was chief among the concerns of the local constabulary. No way was he being left alone with any more cadavers.
Etymology: re + deviate
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COMMENTS:
erk. don't want to speculate on this one. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 03:32:00
Was it him, or the cadavers, that made him neuerrotic? - Stevenson0, 2007-06-07: 08:52:00
blame the victim! it's not the cadavers' fault they're irresistible. - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 09:09:00
Had they not been wearing so little... - Clayton, 2007-06-07: 18:15:00
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Goofligate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: GOO-fli-geyt or git
Sentence: Bob, whose mistakes at first seemed like harmless nonsense, repeated them so frequently, that, in the end, through his goofligates and goofligating he lost all his friends.
Etymology: GOOF: a mistake or blunder; a stupid person & OFLIGATE (of profligate): unrestrained by convention, reckless, dissolute, self-abandoned.
Eruditto
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: air/u/dit/oh
Sentence: to err is human - to eruditto is deja vu
Etymology: err + erudite + ditto
Misfudgement
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: mis/fudj/ment
Sentence: Not willing to admit that he kept making the same mistake over and over again, Joel once again convinced himself that his decision to have that midnight latte the night before his 6 a.m. presentation was nothing more than a misfudgement...something a 5 a.m. latte could cure.
Etymology: Derived from misjudgement. Fudge: Slang/nice way of saying...yes...the "f" word. :)
Compulserror
Created by: kietra
Pronunciation: com-PULS-e-ROR
Sentence: He could stop compulserroring!
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Sorry! I didn't know everyone else's was so long... now I feel incompetent. :( - kietra, 2007-06-07: 09:51:00
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Dumbasstrophy
Created by: s6guy72
Pronunciation: dum-bass-tro-fe
Sentence: Johnny had a dumbasstrophy when he got crabs from the same girl twice.
Etymology: dumbass- english for dumbass, and trophy from catastrophy for a bad event.
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COMMENTS:
Hee...that was a little "nasterous" but still funny AND great word! - lumina, 2008-07-30: 16:55:00
If you get caught by the crabs twice, you deserve to die. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-30: 17:19:00
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Blooperdupe
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: blu/pur/doop
Sentence: owing to her predisposition to blooperdupe, she had a standing order for large bottles of white out
Etymology: blooper + dupe (repeat)
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COMMENTS:
I really hate it when I keep making mistakes with the white out and covering up perfectly good text. Is that oopsablooperdupe? - petaj, 2007-06-07: 08:23:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy! ~ James
jadenguy - 2007-06-07: 08:49:00
I only made the word because I really wanted a word to use to describe this. In hindsight, I probably should have also tried to come up with one... This wont' be the last time that happens.
evan - 2008-07-30: 11:59:00
Uh, wouldn't this qualify as 'Addiction?'
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy. ~ James
no word right now - but the drawing cracked me up again!!