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DEFINITION: To be so afraid of failure that you become paralyzed -- unable to move, respond or even say a word.
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Errimmobilis
Created by: cryptc
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Error, and Immobilis from latin.
Stiffabled
Created by: Antimus
Pronunciation: stiff-abled
Sentence: She looked at him in such a way, he became so stiffabled that he fell off his chair
Etymology: stiff (as in can't move) and unable, in past tense.
Numbdumb
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: num/dum
Sentence: When he came face to face with his boss to ask for the deserved raise, he became totally numbdumb.
Etymology: numb + dumb
Thicktongue
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: thiktonque
Sentence: hecould not speak he had a thicktonque
Etymology: thik as in fat en tongue as in your mouth
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COMMENTS:
And maybe his head was thick too! - wordmeister, 2007-02-08: 17:38:00
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Skierdycatatonic
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: skēərdēkatətänik
Sentence: Tim took his first-ever trip to a ski resort. He was told it would be a great place to meet young women. He was only one step beyond the lift when the pretty instructor smiled at him. He immediately went skierdycatatonic. It took 4 instructors to get him out of his skis and into the lodge.
Etymology: ski (travel over snow on skis) + scaredy-cat (a timid person) + catatonic (in an immobile or unresponsive stupor)
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COMMENTS:
brilliant! - galwaywegian, 2011-01-25: 10:21:00
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Numbskulled
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: num/sculd
Sentence: He was so numbskulled that his friends didn't know whether he was a nerd, a nimrod, or just a nincompoop.
Etymology: variation of numskull, circa 1724, a higgledy-piggledy muddleheaded person
Starelized
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: stair-uh-lyzd
Sentence: Jimmy was certainly not sterile, but with the way he starelized every time an attractive woman was around, he might as well have been.
Etymology: (stare + paralyzed) = a homophone to sterilized
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COMMENTS:
I think this is very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-08: 14:21:00
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Discoblobulated
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: disk oh blob ewe lay ted
Sentence: He was so discoblobulated when the woman of his dreams asked him to dance that he went totally rigid. Well, 98% rigid.
Etymology: discombobulated, disco, blob
Anxipetrified
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: anks-i-pet-re-fyd
Sentence: The would-be model was so anxipetrified, due to the tiniest amount of flab around her even tinier waist, that her mother had to slap her in the face several times to get a response.
Etymology: From "anxious/anxiety" and "petrified". Note that "petrified" is particularly appropriate here, for the derivation is "turn to stone".
Traumostasis
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: traw mo stay sis
Sentence: upon approaching her his traumostasis started with paralysis of the left foot, before quickly gripping his larynx as soon as he got the fiest syllable of his greeting out. "Hell" he said
Etymology: trauma and stasis
Comments:
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Thanks! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by mana1066. If you have an idea that you'd like verbotomized, send it to us! Go to: http://www.verbotomy.com/verbinition.php.
Thanks! ~ James
wordmeister - 2007-02-08: 14:08:00
Hey this room is nice.... Not too big