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DEFINITION: v. To injure yourself while performing a normal everyday activity, such bending down, standing up, or turning your head quickly. n. An self-inflicted injury which occurred during a period of physical inactivity.
Verboticisms
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Relaxident
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: ree-lax-ih-dihnt
Sentence: It was a relaxident. I was just sitting on the couch watching t.v. and when I tried to change the channel I knocked myself unconscious with the remote control.
Etymology: relax + accident
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COMMENTS:
Channel Surfing is dangerous! - Nosila, 2009-06-01: 14:39:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-06-02: 00:01:00
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Sedenjury
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: said-en-jury
Sentence: It was a rather confusing case for the public, but in the end both suicide and murder were ruled out as the cause of the bloody scene. According to the autopsy report, it was a rare, mortal sedenjury caused by an all-too-full exploding can of beer that did Bob in. Who knew couch-surfing could be so dangerous?
Etymology: Sedentary+Injury=sedenjury
Injurease
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: in - jur - eees
Sentence: Judy had a new injurease. She sprained her arm when she reached into the refrigerator to get the orange juice. It seemed that it hurt just to be alive.
Etymology: injury, ease
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COMMENTS:
Makes you want to avoid orange juice. Evil orange juice. - artr, 2009-06-01: 05:22:00
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Mundjury
Created by: ElleWhite
Pronunciation: muhnd-jeer-ehy
Sentence: Embarrassed by her recent mundjury, Alice scrambled to concoct any story more impressive than "I broke my leg while walking in heels" before her friends saw the cast and crutches.
Etymology: "mund" from "mundane": commonplace; and "jury" from "injury": harm or damage
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COMMENTS:
Mundacious! - Nosila, 2010-06-22: 00:05:00
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Ordinowie
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: ôr'dn-ou'ē
Sentence: Kip couldn't believe the pain of the muscle strain in his lower back. He had been in fights and car wrecks, and had sufferred various wounds in them as well as during his stint as a military policeman in Saigon, but this was just an ordinowie-a channel-changing injury-he'd pulled his back reaching for the remote.
Etymology: 'Ord,' Army post in Monterey Bay, California; 'inow,' var. on the mantra of the know-it-all; 'ie,' abbr. for id est, latin, 'that is.'
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COMMENTS:
interesting ety, there! - pieceof314, 2008-04-15: 13:12:00
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Mortifimpaired
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mort - iff - im - payrd
Sentence: Morton was completely mortifimpaired, suffering both injury and embarrassment at his being wheelchair bound thru an injury acquired during foolish horseplay.
Etymology: Blend of mortified and impaired.
Ziplash
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: zip lash
Sentence: When Henry accidentally caught himself in the fly of his pants(ouch), he jerked his head down so quickly to see what he had done, that he gave himself ziplash.
Etymology: Zip (zipper, fly, fastener of clothing) & Whiplash (an injury to the neck as a result of rapid acceleration or deceleration)
Freaccident
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: freek-seh-dent
Sentence: Being a wholly uncoordinated and clumsy oaf, Manfred seems to suffer one freaccident after another, goofy injuries that for anyone else would be very rare.
Etymology: Blend of 'freak' (A thing or occurrence that is markedly unusual or irregular) and 'accident' (an unforeseen and unplanned mishap)
Workouch
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: wərkouch
Sentence: Every time Wendell goes to the gym to get in shape he ends up participating in a workouch. Its not that he doesn’t believe in warming up or starting slow and building up. He just doesn’t get that far. Last week he sprained his wrist opening the lock on his locker.
Etymology: workout (a session of vigorous physical exercise or training) + ouch (used to express pain)
Insultwinjury
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn sull twin jerr eee
Sentence: Her latest insultwinjury occurred due to her using tweezers while driving. it gave new meaning to "keeping an eye on the road"
Etymology: insult to injury.
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COMMENTS:
great twist - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-15: 10:51:00
It's like when you put mascara on while driving...or so I'm told...good one. - Nosila, 2008-04-15: 20:56:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger. Thank you Tigger. ~ James
Banky - 2008-04-15: 15:48:00
Excellent definition, Tigger. I actually had this happen before one of my first dates with my wife, and I didn't tell her the real story until a couple months after we were married.
Hey Banky, what was the injury? And how did you hide it from your future wife? ~ James
Tigger - 2008-04-15: 22:43:00
Oh, good words everyone. I couldn't wait to get home and see what everyone came up with. I'm currently nursing a pulled stomach muscle that I got while I was reaching for the phone, when I happened to sneeze at the same time. So, I'm the idiot that inspired the definition.
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger. Thank you Tigger. ~ James
Very good word! I liked your note about it being found on Google because of people misspelling.
I think everyone has a friend's name that they could use. . .