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DEFINITION: A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity.
Verboticisms
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Nostaljack
Created by: sharktrager
Pronunciation: nos-TAL-jack
Sentence: My parents nostaljacked my dream to become a pop singer just because they worked in a plastic factory.
Etymology: From Nostalgia and hijack.
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - bananabender, 2008-01-04: 07:56:00
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Histonag
Created by: imashelcha
Pronunciation: HI.sto.nag
Sentence: Mt dad is such a histonag. I wish he didn't have to constantly relive his childhood like this.
Etymology: History + nag
Weniwasalad
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: wen eye wuz a lad
Sentence: Dad said in his annoying weniwasalad manner that Darcy didn't need a computer, because he had already bought her a protractor even though they did not live on a farm!
Etymology: when I was a lad...nuff said
Uphillbothwaysian
Created by: Kazizzle
Pronunciation: uh/pill/bowth/waze/ian
Sentence: Dad: ... in the pouring rain! Son: You're such an uphillbothwaysian, Dad!
Etymology: The hyperbole every child is told. "When I was a kid, I had to walk uphill both ways in 10 feet of snow to get to school!"
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COMMENTS:
100/100 for creativeness! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-04: 04:32:00
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Granddiculer
Created by: bigbigjeff
Pronunciation: grand-dic-you-ler
Sentence: My father was such a granddicular. Constantly talking about his childhood plight, how his parents made him wear concrete shoes.
Etymology: Grand- old or great, diculer from ridiculous for absurd or innane
Ludicrite
Created by: blurmore
Pronunciation: Loo-deh-krit
Sentence: When the refrigerator broke in the middle of winter I suggested we keep the milk outside untill spring, but my wife just rolled her eyes like I was a ludicrite.
Etymology: Ludicrous + Hypocrite
Notomfoolerist
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: no-tom-fool-erist
Sentence: He was such a clever notomfoolerist when he stopped Judy from putting her foot in her mouth by pretending to bite his toes!
Etymology: no - meaning don't. tomfool for tomfoolery meaning folly. ist to make it a nound describing a person who helps others avoid becoming a fool
Nostooglia
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: no-stewg-lyah
Sentence: Martin usually breaks into a nostooglic rant about only having rocks and dead animals to play with when his grandkids complain about being bored.
Etymology: nostalgia + stooge
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! A person who discourages another from becoming a stooge ... a nostooglia. Very clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-03: 15:52:00
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Sillustrator
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: SIL-uh-strey-ter
Sentence: A sillustrator is a person who, when asked by his son for the latest computer, blurts out "If necessity is the mother of invention, how do all the unnecessary gadgets, like computers, get invented?"
Etymology: Blend of silly & illustrator
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COMMENTS:
Chuckling over your fun word that is right on the definition. The alliteration of the s's the ll's the t's and r's ... even makes it fun to say! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-03: 16:00:00
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Pastxaggerator
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: pas-tex-aj-er-eyt-or
Sentence: My father was quite the pastxaggerator, sometimes I think I miss those imaginary tales.
Etymology: past:as in the time when our old were young+exaggerator:someone who stretches the truth
