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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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Ircho
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ərkō
Sentence: Mike doesn’t care for his new intern. Instead of learning and adopting Mike’s best talents and habits he irchos the worse. All the bad habits and traits he tries to hide behind his cubicle walls come back to smack him in the face.
Etymology: irk (irritate; annoy) + echo (a person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another)
Echorritation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: eh-co-reh-TAY-shun
Sentence: Seeing or hearing some of his own peccadilloes and bad habits from his friends and acquaintenances always causes Wilmer to experience severe bouts of echorritation wherein he shouts the same epithets and insults that they toss his way when HE does or says those things.
Etymology: Blend of 'echo' and 'irritation'
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.
Psyechosis
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: sahy - ek - oh - sis
Sentence: He simply could not enjoy the comedian with the cackling hyena sitting next to him, he had to move! Luckily, the people next to him had unexplicably moved down a table earlier, his psyechosis was in rare form tonight.
Etymology: Psychosis - Echo
Apeathy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ape/a/thy
Sentence: Jill's habit of greeting everyone who approached the desk with "what's up guys?" stereophonically in sync with her own sent her into state of apeathy
Etymology: ape (to mimic) + apathy (cool detachment
Sinbiosis
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He and his roommate were stuck in a taxing sinbiosis.
Etymology: sin + symbiosis
Mirritate
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: mir-ri-tate
Sentence: Jill manages to mirritate david, using the same annoying snort, as she tries to clear her nasil passage.
Etymology: mirror, as in mimick/irritate
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)
Hollarium
Created by: angel23
Pronunciation: (hall-air-i-um)
Sentence: She was in a natural state of hollarium when he showed up on her doorstep.
Etymology:
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