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DEFINITION: n., A pesky but persistently painful, and seemingly incurable paper cut, which simply refuses to heal. n. To cut or injure a "high use" body part, like a fingertip, knuckle or tongue.
Verboticisms
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Vecktomize
Created by: MashedSalad
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I bet you love Vecktomizing don't you?
Etymology: When Someone Vecktomizes you you are kissed with lots of love and tongs!!!
Eternhurty
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ee-turn-her-tee
Sentence: every time he cut up a lemon he felt a stinging sensation in his eternhurty
Etymology: eternity, hurt
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COMMENTS:
heh - galwaywegian, 2008-09-03: 06:31:00
fantastic - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-03: 12:18:00
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Emophilia
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation: emo-philia
Sentence: Suzie pinched herself with the needle and now she thinks she's going to die. A very very slow and excrutiating death
Etymology: emotion + hemophilia
Incuracut
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: in-kyoor-uh-kut
Sentence: Her blackberry looked like she bludgeoned someone with it, but it was just her incuracut acting up again.
Etymology: incurable + cut
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-03: 18:33:00
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Ouchnick
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: OUCH - nik
Sentence: Ozzie was an ouchnik, obsessed and overwhelmed by the fear of being ouchnicked.
Etymology: OUCH: an exclamation expressing sudden pain or dismay & NICK: a small dent or wound.
Knockawound
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: nok-ah-woond
Sentence: Poor little Windsey's knockawound prevented her from using her iPhone to notify her entourage where the party was.
Etymology: Knock- To collide with something. A- Used as a function word. Wound- An injury, usually involving division of tissue. (a cut)
Lingerfingerinjury
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: linger+finger+injury
Sentence: I tried to keep from shaking hands since somehow I had managed to lingerfingerinjure my right thumb.
Etymology: linger+finger+injury
Bugabooboo
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: buhg-uh-boo-boo
Sentence: Ken was reminded of the bugabooboo on his finger when he attempted to fish some jalapenos out of a jar. This was the worst pain he had experienced since he had eaten a salty potato chip and irratated his lip ulcer.
Etymology: bugaboo (a recurring problem or situation) + boo-boo
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COMMENTS:
she's crying in the cartoon so maybe it's a bugabooboohoo - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-03: 15:23:00
Clever and interesting! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-03: 18:27:00
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Aboobooration
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: a-boo-boo-ray-shun
Sentence: Connie loved turning the pages of those slick women's mags in her dentist's waiting room. But, without fail, usually just before they called her name, she would (perhaps flipping a page too quickly?) get yet another aboobooration which she just knew would still be there when her fourth root canal had long been completed.
Etymology: from aberration, meaning out of the ordinary + boo boo, a reference to a small wound, usually on a child's body
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James