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DEFINITION: v. To pretend to forget an embarrassing act or event. n. A person who pretends to forget embarrassing moments or actions.
Verboticisms
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Defactualize
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: de/fak/choo/al/ize
Sentence: All politicans, from the lowliest elected, to the President of the United States, must be able to defactualize certain happenings in order to be diplomatic and appear inclusive, accepting and tolerant of all people and situations.
Etymology: DEFACTUALIZE - verb - from DE (added to form verbs applying removal, or reversal) + FACT (something that actually happened, or exists) + ACTUALIZE (actual; to realize in action)
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COMMENTS:
Superb sentence and word! Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was some way to deactivate those who defactualize? - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 11:01:00
Great word...like when we unhire someone at work, we decruit them! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:16:00
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Electamnesia
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: e LEKT am NEE zha
Sentence: The leader was told that if he was asked any questions that might embarrass him to just use his electamnesia strategy.
Etymology: SELECT: choose ELECT: choose or to select by vote AMNESIA: to forget
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COMMENTS:
Got my vote...but I can't remember. - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:20:00
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Whodat
Created by: otherguy
Pronunciation: hoōdat
Sentence: When John took over from the dolt who used to do his job he developed a whodat attitude, acting as if he didn't even know what had been done in the past or the people who had done it.
Etymology: Who: what or which person or people + that: used to identify a specific person or thing observed by the speaker (a play on Who's that? a question you might ask if you are trying to forget someone)
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COMMENTS:
Simple. To the point. I like it. - artr, 2009-01-22: 06:44:00
nice - galwaywegian, 2009-01-22: 14:31:00
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Shiftyeyenesia
Created by: youngin105
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When someone has been caught pretending to have forgotten an embarrassing event: 'God, what a shiftyeyenesiac!'
Etymology: Shifty-eye: motion associated with guilt and/or embarrassment + nesia: the latter part of 'amnesia'.
Pretendshuhsh
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pree/tend/sh/huh/sh
Sentence: Sally was so pretendshuhsh that she would never acknowledge recognizing the employee at the liquor store who routinely pushed her heavily laden cart around the store.
Etymology: pretend + huh? + shush + hush + pretentious
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COMMENTS:
Great combo. Great word. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:55:00
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Forgetwit
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fərgetwit
Sentence: As he took up the mantle of his new job, Barry took the high road and chose to ignore the blunders of his predecessor — to forgetwit. It was not an easy thing to do.
Etymology: forget (fail to remember) + twit (fool)
Shambush
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Sham-bush
Sentence: Asked what it felt like to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor the new president cleverly avoided the question by faking a shambush and pretending he didn't know who the interviewer was talking about.
Etymology: Sham(fake) + Bush(Surname of the previous president of the USA)
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COMMENTS:
Cleverly crafted sentence! Avoiding the press's ambush with shambush! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 11:04:00
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-22: 12:38:00
Oh, my...wish I'd seen this before I used up all my votes! Love it. - readerwriter, 2009-01-22: 16:20:00
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Feigngotten
Created by: GlobalGallery
Pronunciation: Fayn-got-ten
Sentence: "Are you fit to hold a drivers licence? How many other accidents have you caused?", asked the curious reporter from the Channel 6 News Team. "None!" barked the heiress, wobbly on her feet. Clearly she'd feigngotten about the two other luxury sedans she had written off earlier that December.
Etymology: 1.Feign - to pretend. 2.Forgotten - unable to be recalled.
Recollectchump
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: rek oll ek tshump
Sentence: He went from election to recollectchump in mid oath.
Etymology: recollection, chump
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COMMENTS:
Well-said. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 10:54:00
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Oliberate
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: o-lib-er-ate
Sentence: Rather than obliterating his vanquished foe, the commander-in-chief demonstrated his ultimate coolness by oliberating him instead. With the whole world watching, he took the high road, though he had to clear a lot of brush off it because it had been untraveled for so long. If only he knew someone who was good at clearing brush. Oh yeah, not going to go there.
Etymology: A twist on the word obliterate, to incorporate liberate and to pay tribute to the O of the mOment.
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COMMENTS:
Well-crafted endings ... of both sentence and etymology! Oliberate is such a highly hopeful word. Obama has inferred comparisons to Lincoln, MLK, Kenedy and so many others, so I also thought it very clever that this brings to mind The Great Liberator, Simon Bolivar. - silveryaspen, 2009-01-22: 01:36:00
Good word and interesting sentence, good wordplay! - Nosila, 2009-01-22: 20:14:00
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Comments:
Verbotomy - 2009-01-22: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James
metrohumanx - 2009-01-22: 06:33:00
Well, they found methane on Mars. Now we have to find the Martian cows responsible for the bovine flatulence.
silveryaspen - 2009-01-22: 11:12:00
readerwriter - 2009-01-22: 16:19:00
It's the one who jumped over the moon, Metro...
Nosila - 2009-01-22: 20:08:00
Isn't Mars part of the Milky Way?
Verbotomy - 2014-10-24: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James