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'Do you think she is overreacting to our surprise party?'

DEFINITION: n., The shock and embarrassment felt after innocently implying that you are much younger, only to discover that everyone actually knows how old you really are. v., To be embarrassed when caught lying about your age.

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Crimsenescence

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: KRIM-si-NES-uht

Sentence: When celebrating a surprize birthday party with her twin brother, Roxie's friends found out that they were not identical: he was forty-five and she was only thirty-one! Despite her candleblush, crimsenescence and muttonrouge, she quickly explained to all and sundry, "I never forgotten my age - once I decided what it was to be!"

Etymology: CRIMSENESCENCE: Blend of CRIMSON: reddened, red-faced, flushed & SENESCENCE: growing; old,aging. CANDLE: (the number of) as a symbol of age on a birthday cake & BLUSH: To become red in the face through embarassment. MUTTONROUGE: as in "mutton done up as lamb;" Rouge: as in red for embarrasment. Also a play on, or antonym of, the "Moulin Rouge."

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Crisage

Created by: LivingGummyWorm

Pronunciation: Cry-sage

Sentence: That birthday party was such a crisage!

Etymology:

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Embrage

Created by: boviex

Pronunciation: embrej alt. embrAge

Sentence: She was embraged when she discovered that her age was no secret. When she saw the number of candles on the cake, her heart filled with embrage.

Etymology: Take your pick. Embarass(ment)/Age/Umbrage/(En)rage

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Deviageon

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dee vee aje on

Sentence: Priscilla was guilty of deviageon, because she thought her co-workers had forgotten all the other years she had celebrated her 29th birthday...all of her 20 years working with them!

Etymology: deviate (be at variance with) & age (your REAL age)

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COMMENTS:

Devilish word. I like it! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 18:26:00

Nice combo. It does seem to imply a devilish intent to lie about one's age. - Tigger, 2008-02-05: 21:31:00

Wow. Definitely gets a vote from me. - Maxine, 2008-02-05: 21:39:00

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Annunull

thegoatisbad

Created by: thegoatisbad

Pronunciation: an-ye-nul

Sentence: You are cordially invited to Kimberly's annunull birthday party! Come celebrate as Kimberly turns 27, again. Kimberly is registered at Bed, Bath & Beyond; Hancock Fabrics; and the Birkenstock outlet. Party starts at 4:30. BYOB. Park down the street.

Etymology: annual (happening yearly) + null (amounting to nothing)

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COMMENTS:

Happy Annunull, Kimberly! - Nosila, 2010-04-23: 23:24:00

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Embarragement

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: embarājment

Sentence: The surprise birthday party created nothing but embarragement. The truth came out when someone calculated that Suzie’s son would have been born when she was 4 years old.

Etymology: embarrassment (a feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness) + age (the length of time that a person has lived)

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Discombobulage

Created by: dochanne

Pronunciation: Dis com bob you lage

Sentence: When Helen opened the door she was pleasantly surprised to find her friends waiting with a cake, until her eye caught the smirk on Jame's face and her joy turned to discombobulage: was that a "40" candle?

Etymology: Discombobulate: to upset, fluster or distress Age: how many trips around the sun one has lived through

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COMMENTS:

Don't I know you from somewhere ? - emdeejay, 2008-12-01: 02:55:00

That sounds like a pick-up line :) - dochanne, 2008-12-04: 13:06:00

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Fibbage

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fibij

Sentence: It was common in the college town he grew up in for high schoolers to try to pass themselves off as college students. Wendell was never very successful at it. Maybe it was the way his voice cracked every time he got excited or the complete lack of facial or body hair. Perhaps it was that someone had seen his mother drop him off. Whatever the case, his fibbage would always be revealed. To make matters worse, girls would often not believe he was even in high school.

Etymology: fib (a lie, typically an unimportant one) + age (the length of time that a person has lived)

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Fossilies

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fos sil ayes

Sentence: Although she dressed and tried to act young, Methusalina's fossilies fooled no one. Many at the party thought the scar on her arm was from a bite inflicted on her by her pet dinosaur when she was a girl...

Etymology: Fossilize (convert to a fossil;be really old) & Lies (statements that deviate from or pervert the truth)

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Agionous

Created by: EBalser

Pronunciation: Age-io-nus

Sentence: Yesterday,I was hanging out with a bunch of 12 year olds after school and my boyfriend walked by wondering why I was, in that very moment I was agionous.

Etymology: ag-how old you are ionous-lying

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-02-05: 00:55:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James

silveryaspen - 2008-02-05: 06:56:00
Had so much fun with your definition remistram! All kinds of related verboticisms popped into my mind, some of which I couldn't resist putting in my sentence as I sat here laughing out loud. Everyone's great creations made me laugh more. Fun definition!

ErWenn - 2008-02-05: 10:09:00
I've made it a point to let my friends know that on my birthday cake, I expect one candle for every year of my age. (Next is the big three-oh.) You can't stop getting older, so you might as well enjoy the fire hazard that your birthday cake is slowly becoming.

remistram - 2008-02-05: 12:05:00
Can relate - turned the big 4-0 in January....ack!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-02-06: 07:14:00
Yes the fires are getting bigger ~ James

silveryaspen - 2008-11-28: 14:10:00
Lots of fun and funny sentences today!

Nosila - 2008-11-28: 21:50:00
When I red your story I knew it was one in vermilion!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-04-23: 00:07:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James