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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.
Verboticisms
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Guilestone
Created by: loxhobabl
Pronunciation: gile-stone
Sentence: Karen perpetrated a >guilestone at her birthday get-together.
Etymology: guile, milestone
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
Crisage
Created by: LivingGummyWorm
Pronunciation: Cry-sage
Sentence: That birthday party was such a crisage!
Etymology:
Fibromyagea
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Fib - ro - mi - AJ - ya
Sentence: Eloise felt the reddening of her face as a wave of fibromyagea swept over her when she realized she'd been caught exaggerating her youth.
Etymology: Fib + my age (a play words on the malady fibromyalgia)
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COMMENTS:
A painful realization, apparently. Interesting blend. - Tigger, 2008-02-05: 02:56:00
good one! - galwaywegian, 2008-02-05: 07:20:00
nice blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 15:49:00
nice blend but its to hard to pronounce - purpleman, 2008-02-05: 16:54:00
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Whoopsage
Created by: ooosofia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I didn't realize my whoopsage until a fellow partygoer asked if I needed help turning up my hearing aid.
Etymology: whoops! + age
Humiliagesham
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: hew-milly-AGE-sham
Sentence: Beatrice suffered a major attack of humiliagesham when she realized late in the evening that most of the folks at the party knew she had taken ten years off her age in an earlier discussion.
Etymology: Blend of humiliated, age, and sham. A play on the word 'humiliation'.
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COMMENTS:
I bet this is gonna be the best of the day! - logarithm, 2008-11-28: 01:31:00
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Embarragement
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)
Humiliage
Created by: Dougalistic
Pronunciation: Hugh-milly-udge
Sentence: Janine's party was a complete flop. We knew she was like 16, she didn't fool anybody saying she was 22. I mean, who was she kidding? Anyway she had complete humiliage, and ran out the house screaming "im doomed, you all hate me!". We just laughed.
Etymology: Humiliate - To damage somebody's dignity or pride, especially publicly. Age - the life of something be it an inanimate object or living thing.
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COMMENTS:
Fits the definition so very well and the feeling that goes with it! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-05: 07:20:00
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-05: 16:17:00
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Squirmage
Created by: Tjay33
Pronunciation: Skwermayge
Sentence: When Betty found out that the whole office knew her real age, she felt so much squirmage she wished the ground would open up and swallow her.
Etymology: Squirm - to feel great embarrassment + age -the amount of time you have been alive = SQUIRMAGE
Sprungchicken
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: sprung-chick-n
Sentence: Eva Longevia was a sprungchicken. She insisted that she was only in her 30s, even in front of her parents who were both sprightly octogenarians. They quickly put the assembled guests to rights, disclosing that Eva was actually in her fifties.
Etymology: sprung (slang for caught, found out) + spring chicken (colloquialism for young person)
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COMMENTS:
I seem to have a fowl theme going this week - petaj, 2008-11-28: 04:01:00
You might have a fowl theme going, but they are so good, you might say they are the cock of the walk! I will long use and chuckle over sprungchicken and roasttrickey, and laugh a long time with you over them. - silveryaspen, 2008-11-28: 14:02:00
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Comments:
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!
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!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James