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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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Injurtia
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/jur/sheea
Sentence: Mark suffered from chronic injurtia. He often injured himself surfing the internet or changing stations on the remote.
Etymology: injure + inertia
Painormicalasistic
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: pai-nohr-mee-ca-le-si-stic
Sentence: i got Painormicalasistic yesterday by jumping up and down.
Etymology: none
Idlejure
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: ahyd-l-joor, ahyd-l-joor-ee
Sentence: How I managed to idlejure both my legs while folding laundry I'll never understand, but I guess that's the nature of idlejuries. One minute you're standing there minding your own business, the next you're in a body cast!
Etymology: idle + injure
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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Chagrinjury
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: sha-GRIN-jry
Sentence: Elwood suffered yet another chagrinjury when he got his finger caught in the whisk attachment on his mixer, jerked the mixer off the counter wherein it fell on his toes, and while dancing about in pain knocked himself senseless when his head whacked into the open cupboard door.
Etymology: Blend of 'chagrin' (a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation) and 'injury'
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COMMENTS:
What a klutz! Good one. - Nosila, 2009-06-01: 14:37:00
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Somnolendemic
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: som/no/lem/demic
Sentence: A somnolemdemic experiences injuries caused by twisted sheets and bed bugs.
Etymology: somnolent (asleep) + endemic
Magnedent
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: mag neh dent
Sentence: Phil was a congenital magnadent. To say he was accident prone would be an understatement. Accidents seemed to find him in the most mundane and safe places. It was a good thing he had insurance, because otherwise he's be in quite a bind. His policy has several riders on it that prohibit him from climbing steps, riding bikes with any amount of wheels, crossing the street, eating while walking, and hundreds of other scenarios that indicate a troubled past.
Etymology: magnet + accident
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COMMENTS:
Phil probably could not walk past a fridge without sticking to it...Good One! - Nosila, 2008-04-15: 20:49:00
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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)
Ouchpotato
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ouch-puh-tey-toh
Sentence: A sedentary lifestyle with a certain level of atrophy have left Roger an ouchpotato.
Etymology: ouch (interjection used to express pain) + couch potato (a lazy person whose recreation consists chiefly of watching television and videos)
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. . .