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DEFINITION: v. To spend years and years wishing you could be young again, only to discover that it's actually happening, but not exactly as you imagined. n. The fear the you are getting so old that people will start treating you like a baby
Verboticisms
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Shrinkle
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: SHRING kuhl
Sentence: "You're just beginning to shrinkle," the doctor said. "I'd say you have a few good years left."
Etymology: (shrink: to dwindle) + (wrinkle: to crease)
Peterpandemonium
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: PEE-ter-pahn-DE-MO-knee-yum
Sentence: As George saw the silver hairs slowly overtake his once raven colored head, he went into a sort of peterpandemonium -an unsighlty display involving a bottle of Grecian Formula, a vapid 20 something girlfirend and digging his old Member's Only jacket out of the attic.
Etymology: Peter Pan + Pandemonium
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COMMENTS:
Funny. - hyperborean, 2012-10-17: 23:39:00
Funny story to a really good word
- DrWebsterIII, 2012-10-26: 14:33:00
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Doddler
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dädlər
Sentence: LLoyd may be retired but he is still very active. He is part of a group that power walks the local shopping mall each morning. He hates it when he gets stuck behind a doddler.
Etymology: dodder (tremble or totter, typically because of old age) + toddler (a young child who is just beginning to walk)
Younderyearning
Created by: grasshopper
Pronunciation: you/ under/yre/ning
Sentence: I had to explain to my 10 yar old that her grandmother was not living vicariously but younderyerning.
Etymology: younder/days gone by, yearning/to want badly = younderyearning
Renatalize
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: re-na-ta-lize
Sentence: Renatalization was a subfield of Geriatrics and still in the experimental stages. Adolfia Ghering, MD, was among its pioneers. The hopes and dreams of mankind were still a fertile (and sometimes foolish, Adolfia thought) field full of promise. Finding just the right patients took...well, patience. But, afterall, the market was ripe with eager Baby Boomers. Sitting before her now was a dear little man who looked so much like Albert Einstein. Soon she would know if little Albert had been a cute and cuddly baby. Now that the technique had been approved for trial, Adolfia just needed this guy to sign on the dotted line while there was still time to renatalize him. Now if she could just get the pen to stay in his trembling hand...
Etymology: From re, meaning again + natal, meaning relating to one's time of birth
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COMMENTS:
ooh - nice etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:26:00
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Transfiguragetion
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: trans/figur/a/shun
Sentence: His friends were startled at the transfiguragetion Mark achieved by going on What Not To Where. His layette set with matching bonnet and bootees was the perfect outfit to wear to his Born Again meetings at the local alzheimer clinic.
Etymology: transfiguration + age
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COMMENTS:
What a confusing paragraph. Voted! - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:11:00
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Retroturing
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: ret trow tour ing
Sentence: Herbert found himself retroturing into an 60 year old in the day care center.
Etymology: retro - looking back uring - the second half of maturing
Repubesce
Created by: airliebee
Pronunciation: re-pew-bess
Sentence: Fred had worked his whole life, right up until his 86th birthday when the symptoms began. Repubescophobia had gripped him at 55 and refused to let go. His family had called it for what it was, just getting old, but Fred had stoically worked long and hard to stave off the inevitable. Now, he looked hopefully up at the doctor for an answer, but he quickly saw, with what remained of his vision, that her face said it all. He was going to repubesce, and there was nothing he could do. His repubescence was upon him, and there was no miracle drug on the planet that could stop repuberty. Fred was doomed, so he resigned himself to his fate and asked the pretty young doctor for a lollipop.
Etymology: re-: prefix, used to indicate repetition, or with the meaning again, back or backward to indicate withdrawal or backward motion. + pubescence: to arrive, or begin puberty (the beginning of adolescence when the sex glands become functional)
Elixhiliration
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: ee/lix/hill/ir/ay/shun
Sentence: The elixhiliration he felt when the effects of the wonder drug enabled him to fit into his old baseball uniform quickly dissipated when he realized he had last worn it when he was twelve.
Etymology: elixir + exhiliration
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COMMENTS:
Funny...sounds like me....beerlixir.. - Mustang, 2008-08-14: 06:48:00
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Infantasia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: in-fant-AZE-ya
Sentence: The downside of Morton's having entered a state of infantasia was that he was unaware of the real parts of his life much of the time, and the upside was that during his lucid hours he was not really aware that he been to la-la land.
Etymology: Blend of 'Infant' (n. a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk; baby. ) and 'fantasia' (n. something considered to be unreal, weird, exotic, or grotesque)
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COMMENTS:
I like this word. - hyperborean, 2012-10-17: 23:42:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback, and the never-ending search for the magic pill that will make you young again. The funny thing is that when the rejuvenation does happen in the real world, it's usually a disaster -- and a source for inspiration. Thanks Rob! ~ James
ivonce - 2008-08-18: 09:40:00
cool