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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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Reverage
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: reh - ver - rayzh
Sentence: The reverage was worse than anyone's ever seen. His teeth fell out and it was the last of his pork diet.
Etymology: reverse + age + leverage
Deselinify
Created by: bwesterlind
Pronunciation: De-Sehn-il-If-Eye
Sentence: v: As they years passed he continued to progressively desenilify. n: The man in the nursing home was full of desenilify
Etymology:
Rejuvenackered
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ree jew ven ack erred
Sentence: when he had wished for the body of a much younger man, he had hoped he'd be able to control his dribbling a little better. He was rejuvenackered, he shouldn't have gone to the nightclub in the first place and it was going to take him the best part of what remained of the night to get these damn leather trousers off.
Etymology: rejuvenation, knackered.
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COMMENTS:
Got my vote before the sentence was even there. I can use this one, it's great to say out loud. - petaj, 2007-06-21: 05:48:00
great definition - he was probably hoping for rejuvenknockhered - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 11:09:00
Yes! - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:09:00
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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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Silverblock
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Sill/ver/bloc
Sentence: As an honest writer of children's bedtime stories, PJ sometimes felt the retarding effects of writer's block, but when he was diagnosed with severe silverblock, he felt his life's work was a big lie and a product of his own vanity.
Etymology: Silverblock n. genetically modified variation of "silverback``, the lead (eldest?) male in a troop of gorillas, crossed with "writer's block``, a condition experienced by uninspired writers (perhaps in denial of lack of ability to be inspired?).
Regretssion
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: rE-gret-shun
Sentence: Tom, at the age of 99, felt regretssion that he couldn't compete in this year's Ironnman.
Etymology: regression/regret
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COMMENTS:
gret word toadstool - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 16:39:00
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Nappydays
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Nap-pee-dayz
Sentence: Bob's wish to be young again had finally come true. Having been diagnosed with Alzheimers disease he could no longer fend for himself and had reverted back to having a mental age of three. He was certainly back in his nappydays!
Etymology: Nappy(a piece of absorbant material wrapped around babies to absorb bodily functions)ORIGIN abb.Napkin + Days = Nappydays. See also Happydays. A comedy following a group of teenagers growing up in the 1950's, when their lives where full of fun and being young thought nothing could ever go wrong in life.
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COMMENTS:
funny, he became a fonz de leon - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:24:00
Isn't this a sad definition? Good word, TJayzz. - Nosila, 2008-08-14: 21:44:00
Very clever. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-08-15: 06:03:00
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Nappiarch
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: NAP-ee-ahrk
Sentence: Bob yearned to be young again and the leader of the pack; but instead this greying sexageranium [sic] - he certainly was "wilting" fast - was doomed only to nappiarch in a palzheimer's paradise in dwinetime with fellow mewlthuselahs
Etymology: NAPPY: garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [syn: diaper] & PATRIARCH: A very old, venerable man; an elder; Also used figuratively. DWINETIME: dwine OE (dwinan). to wasteor pine away, fade, languish, & wither, wane. MEWLTHUSELAH (mewl): to cry, as a young child & methuselah.
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COMMENTS:
great blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:22:00
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Youthdecay
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: yooth-duh-kay
Sentence: Grandpa was suffering from youthdecay, which was causing a severe case of glumdisease
Etymology: youth, decay, tooth decay
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COMMENTS:
That can have nasty complications with longperiodontitis. - petaj, 2007-06-21: 03:50:00
A cavortee is fairly unlikely, i suppose - galwaywegian, 2007-06-21: 06:16:00
No doubt he'd eventually develop gingivigoritis. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 08:05:00
Not if he uses youthwash. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 09:43:00
maybe an orthodontryst with some dental floosie would help - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-21: 10:42:00
Sounds like orally good time. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 11:13:00
(insert oral roberts joke here). - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-21: 11:24:00
Very well. Grandpa had to settle for oral, because he left his roberts at home. - Clayton, 2007-06-21: 20:13:00
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Methuselize
Created by: pungineer
Pronunciation: meth/thooz/al/eyes
Sentence: Henry felt as fit as a fiddle, since retiring he had taken up hangliding, white water rafting and book keeping, he felt as young as a kitten. His wife felt like she was going through a strange second stage of motherhood as she was keeping Henry in adult incontinence drawers so he could do all his activities with confidence... Her health care provider told her it was a classic case of methuselism.
Etymology: Methuselah - really old fictional character + ise - overused verbotomy suffix thanks for Ozziebob's inspiritional sentence...
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COMMENTS:
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-08-14: 12:25:00
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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
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