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DEFINITION: v. To be angry and disappointed (and secretly embarrassed) when your children grow up to make the same foolish mistakes that you did. n. The emotion parents feel when they see their children make the same mistakes they did.
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Grumpfather
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: GRUMP-fah-thir
Sentence: "My kid is such a downer, he never sees the good in people," Jim grumpfathered.
Etymology: grumpy + father
Kintainted
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: kin tane ted
Sentence: Chester was nearly morose when he realized that his son was kintainted and would never amount to more than a chip off the old block.
Etymology: kin + tainted
Pedisgrace
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'ped-is-"grAs/
Sentence: "Big" Tony Goldblatt was pedisgraced to see his daughter follow in his footsteps and become a hitperson.
Etymology: From pedigree + disgrace
Outerchildism
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: ow - ter - child - ism
Sentence: Shelly's outerchildism was making it hard for her to get over her children's failures.
Etymology: a play off of innerchild
Heirroneous
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: air-roh-nee-us
Sentence: Like his father, and his father's father before him, Tim heirroneously believed money could buy him happiness.
Etymology: heir + erroneous (containing or derived from error)
Dejablues
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: day-zyar-bloo-s
Sentence: Groucho and Binky were hoping to send their daughter Nelly to university, but were suffering dejablues when she packed herself off to the circus
Etymology: From de-ja-vu (the feeling of repeating a past event) and having the blues (depression)
Parant
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: pair-rant
Sentence: Just as he was about to parant about his kids, Justin remembered his father had paranted about him in much the same way.
Etymology: parent + rant
Perplextofkin
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: purr-plext-ov-kin
Sentence: as her daughter left the house wearing a ra-ra skirt and a jacket with shoulder pads..SHOULDER PADS!...she was utterly perplextofkin
Etymology: perplexed, next of kin
Genashame
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: jen-a-shame or jeen-a-shame
Sentence: Bob was overcome with genashame upon discovering Robert Jr's conversion to a wacky cult like Christianity.
Etymology: From "gene" and "shame/ashamed". Anyone upset by my sentence will surely forgive me...
