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DEFINITION: v. To identify so strongly with character from a book, show, or urban legend, that you become convinced that the story is actually about you. n., A person who believes they are a fictional character in wonderfully tragic and heroic story.
Verboticisms
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Biobliophile
Created by: loxhobabl
Pronunciation: by-o-blee-o-file
Sentence: You know she's a biobliophile if she clicks her heels together when she's homesick.
Etymology: biography + bibliophile
Biographoon
Created by: zebrahdh
Pronunciation: bi-og-ruh-foon
Sentence: That stupid orphan boy has been wearing those glasses ever since he read the Harry Potter books, and I heard that he is such a biographoon, he's even considering getting a lightning bolt tattooed on his forehead.
Etymology: Biography combined with buffoon.
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COMMENTS:
Clever combo! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-24: 09:32:00
Thanks - zebrahdh, 2008-01-24: 21:21:00
I think it the same boy, having killed his mother and father, threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan! But after all an autobiography is a popular form of fiction in which the writer is always the hero! Interesting word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-25: 03:40:00
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Pretendgonist
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: pre-tend-go-nyst
Sentence: Trina is such a pretendgonist that after she read Romeo and Juliet she believed she was one of the main characters so deeply that she began making funeral arrangements and walking around in mourning for her dear departed Romeo; she snapped out of it when I reminded her that if she is Juliet, then she died too.
Etymology: pretend- to make believe + protagonist - main character in a story
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COMMENTS:
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-17: 12:56:00
Brilliantly literate. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-19: 20:14:00
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Dexterterous
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dex/tur/tear/us
Sentence: Mike become so dexterterous that he ritualistically cut up and packaged all his groceries.
Etymology: dexterous + Dexter (TV series)
Inthemannerjones
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: In-the-man-er-joe-ns
Sentence: Tony was such a great fan of action movies he would often daydream about taking the lead part. Lately he had watched so many he had convinced himself that he truly was inthemannerjones and even went out and bought a hat and a whip!!
Etymology: See Indiana Jones(Action/adventure film)
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-17: 12:57:00
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Fantasme
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fan tas mee
Sentence: When Wendy read books, she automatically related to the main character so strongly, that the fiction became a fantasme for her.
Etymology: Fantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality) & Me (first person singular;I)
Proletagonist
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: prohl-tag-oh-nizt
Sentence: Despite his convictions that he could easily clean the Augean stables, woo the heart of Estella, or lead the Joad family to the fruitful valleys of California, James was just your average proletagonist working the day shift at Kinko's.
Etymology: prole - short for proletariat, the working class, protagonist (- pro) - the primary character of a piece of fiction
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COMMENTS:
Alas, poor James. :) - yellowbird, 2008-01-24: 15:18:00
James is probably not your average prole, if he's working at Kinko's! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-24: 16:11:00
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Liternoti
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: lit-er-NOT-ee
Sentence: Margeau fancied herself as part of the literati, and tried joining book clubs she found through Mensa Yahoo Groups (which, in a remarkably un-genius-like approach, were open for anyone to join). She belied her intelligence, though, when she would lapse into the first person when describing the plot of, say, Anna Karenina. "I was in such despair that throwing myself under the train seemed like my only option," she would intone passionately, only to see all her book club comrades come alive with the realization that she was a liternoti rather than a literati.
Etymology: Literati(literary intelligentsia) changed to incorporate "not"
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COMMENTS:
A Liternoti bad word! - Nosila, 2008-11-17: 20:41:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Dougalistic. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-01-25: 11:30:00
Everyone got me-deep into this definition!
As a veteran daydreamer, I can tell you that hallucinations ARE real. The good ones, anyway.
Today's definition was suggested by Dougalistic. Thank you Dougalistic. ~ James