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DEFINITION: To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation.
Verboticisms
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Whistwash
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: whist-wash
Sentence: By whistwashing the family tree, we were able to ignore what would otherwise have been anomalies, such as wedding dates post-offspring and relationships likely to promote the recessive. Unfortunately, the technique did nothing to limit the number of chinless wonders at family gatherings!
Etymology: whitewash + history
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COMMENTS:
I also saw "wistful" in it. - mplsbohemian, 2007-08-01: 12:11:00
But with our relations, no "fistful!" - administraitor, 2007-08-01: 13:53:00
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Liary
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: lie-ah-ree
Sentence: as he realised he'd forgotten her birthday he quickly pulled out his liary to convince her that her birthday wasn't until next week
Etymology: liar, diary
Retrovise
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: RET ro vize
Sentence: They decided to retrovise their daughter's birthday to AFTER the wedding.
Etymology: retro: backward, and vise: see or view
Mudate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: MEW/date
Sentence: Like Joseph Stalin did with Russian history, Fred had to mudate his past. So Fred went through a transmudation, eliminating from his life all the dates and events which he didn't like, especially his first wife and their divorce. His transmudation was such a liberating experience he wrote a best seller self-help book "Mudate Your Way To Success and Happiness".
Etymology: mutate + date
Gildspree
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: gild + spree
Sentence: Worried that his working-class roots, would be discovered, Bob felt that he needed a background makeover to take him to a top job at the blue-blood, dominated legal firm where he just started to work. Immediately, he set out on a gildspree to goldproof his future. First he changed his place of birth, then his late father's occupation and, finally, to add a bit more self-sparkle, put it around that his maternal grandmother was european royalty. A gildmonger he was, a skilled one, he thought, but would he find out the hard way that all that glitters may not be gold.
Etymology: gild, (OE): a thin layer of gold put on & spree (ON): to run freely..
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COMMENTS:
One midassume that he had the golden touch - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:10:00
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Datelyin
Created by: tatterdemalion
Pronunciation: dayt-LIE-in
Sentence: Dave relied on datelyin to get himself out of many a chronological conundrum.
Etymology: date + lying
Marangle
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: marr-ang-gul
Sentence: Ross marangled with Rachel when he got caught sleeping with another girl and justified it by saying that he & Rachel were on a "break".
Etymology: mar (damage) + angle (perspective)
Optimez
Created by: frostycharlie69
Pronunciation: Op-tee-mez
Sentence: I had to optimez the situation so as not to worry my mother.
Etymology: Merging of "time" and "optimize".
Fudgule
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: fuj-ew-ull
Sentence: As he totally forgot his wife's birthday, he had to fudgule it.
Etymology: fudge, schedule
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COMMENTS:
I hope his birthday plans include a chocolate fudge cake - Jabberwocky, 2007-08-01: 11:32:00
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Deloreanate
Created by: fastward
Pronunciation: delor eanate
Sentence: He tried to deloreanate his wedding date for tax purposes.
Etymology: A Delorean automobile was turned into a time machine.
