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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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Parentlament

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: pah-RENT-la-ment

Sentence: Randy and Sandy are typical parents who share with each other a great deal of parentlament when their kids ignore good advice and make the same mistakes they themselves made as teens.

Etymology: Blend of 'parent' (a father or mother) and 'lament' (a passionate expression of grief or sorrow)

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Totament

Created by: alyssawren

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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)

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Erredity

Created by: hyperborean

Pronunciation: err-ehd-ih-tee

Sentence: When Sandra insisted she really, really loved the drop-out slacker, her Mom remembered meeting Sandra's Dad for the first time, shrugged, and chalked it up to erredity.

Etymology: err (make an error) + heredity (characteristics transmitted genetically

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