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DEFINITION: n. A state of irrational irritation, which inevitably develops whenever you work or live with someone whose annoyingly bad habits happen to mirror your own. v. To be annoyed by someone who has the same annoying habits that you do.
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Mimeopathy
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: mim-eo-pathy
Sentence: Justin was such a profound mimeopath it was surprising he could bear people breathing in the same room...
Etymology: mimeo (duplicate, copy) + pathy (Feeling, suffering, perception)
Projiktation
Created by: MissJones
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Living with him keeps me in a permanent state of projiktation. You're so projiktable!
Etymology:
Nettlesum
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: net tel sum
Sentence: When Grandma next saw her favourite boy, he was given the title 'nettlesum'. This was because she'd forgotten his special toy and blanket. Wheher you are entering a Palace or a Prison, those "babies" needed their comfort.
Etymology: Nettle (Annoy) & Sum (total) and Wordplay on Togetherness (closeness)
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COMMENTS:
add a cement ness - Nosila, 2011-03-10: 02:08:00
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Hereditic
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: herr ed it ik
Sentence: the hereditic was finally proven when aunt Agatha replayed her video recording of john's christening to find a conversation where four generations of Murphy men had their fingers up their nostrils while talking.
Etymology: heredititary, tic
Slobinmebitchin
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: slob-in-me-be-itchin or -bitchin
Sentence: I find the slobinmebitchin whenever my brother picks it, licks it, rolls it and flicks it.
Etymology: From "slob" meaning "Weezer tune", "in me" and "be itching" or "bitchin". Slobs usually have bad habits, itching is an irritation, and the "in me" covers the mirror bit.
Mirritation
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: mih-rih-TAY-shuhn
Sentence: As Alex left the dishes in the sink unwashed, he contemplated the hypocrisy of his own mirritation.
Etymology: mirror + irritation
Twinfuriate
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: twin-FYUR-e-ate
Sentence: My roommate Karl is so twinfuriating! I hate it when he covers my dirty dishes with his! Like there isn't enough dishcord around here...
Etymology: twin, infuriate
Mirrortate
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: mirror tate
Sentence: Jack was so mirrortated by George he started copying him.
Etymology: I wanted to do mirritate but it was already taken.
Irightation
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: i right ation
Sentence: After irightating my way through the party i realized that i had no friends because i deserved no friends. Obsessive irightation may lead to the character of an irighctator.
Etymology: i am right irritation of self-reflection.
Carboncopeeved
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: car-bon-cop-eevd
Sentence: he became so carboncopeeved that that he had no choice but to find somewhere else to live
Etymology: carbon copy, peeved
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COMMENTS:
missed this the first time round - good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-05: 14:50:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by sasgod.
Thank you sasgod! ~ James
Bulletchewer - 2007-04-04: 04:45:00
I think we've already overdone the "doppelgaenger" idea.
wordmeister - 2007-04-04: 09:17:00
Hey Bulletchewer, Are you slobinmebitchin about the carboncopeeved apeathy? Or, are you just feeling hypocricheesed by today's twinfuriating doppelangers?
Bulletchewer - 2007-04-04: 10:59:00
You tell me, Mr Overkill.
wordmeister - 2007-04-04: 15:49:00
I think it's Olsenation...
Today's definition was suggested by sasgod. Thank you sasgod. ~ James