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DEFINITION: v. To make the same mistake over and over again even though you know it's stupid. n. A compulsively repeated mistake.
Verboticisms
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Redoofus
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rēdoōfəs
Sentence: Eric is a redoofus. He doesn*t mean to make the same mistakes over and over. It*s just that he is a very habitual person. Once he has goofed twice, he has developed a reflex. Even when he has time to ponder a decision, he overthinks it and usually corrects the correction back to the error.
Etymology: redo (do something again or differently) + doofus (a stupid person)
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COMMENTS:
funny...love it - mrskellyscl, 2009-12-31: 06:05:00
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Mispeat
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: Miss pete
Sentence: He mispeat the misspelled word.
Etymology: mis - wrong peat - tail end of repeat
Redididit
Created by: couv78
Pronunciation: Re-did-did-it (roll the d's)
Sentence: He done it one more time again. He redididit? yeah.
Etymology: from the drunkenese - to repeat foolishly
Compulserror
Created by: kietra
Pronunciation: com-PULS-e-ROR
Sentence: He could stop compulserroring!
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Sorry! I didn't know everyone else's was so long... now I feel incompetent. :( - kietra, 2007-06-07: 09:51:00
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Gaffedagain
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Gaf-da-gayn
Sentence: Nigel always fell for money- grabbing airheads, even though his friends had warned him time and again he just couldn't help himself. This time he had really gaffedagain as his latest girl had talked him into buying a very expensive, and very large diamond engagement ring even though, unknown to him she was already engaged to someone else.
Etymology: Gaffe(an embarrassing blunder) + Again(once more) = Gaffedagain
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COMMENTS:
GAFFEDAGAIN- nice cadence.
Nigel O'Gaffedagain....wasn't he IRA? - metrohumanx, 2008-07-30: 17:22:00
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Remistake
Created by: eurythmech
Pronunciation: re-mis-take
Sentence: That morning started like so many other mornings, with Charlie remistakingly incinerating his breakfast toast.
Etymology: Rather self explainatory :)
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COMMENTS:
The sentence sells it. Elegant simplicity. - celan1, 2007-06-07: 19:52:00
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Compidiocy
Created by: Katoch
Pronunciation: com-PID-iocy
Sentence: With the police edging towards him and his friends, the pre-teen downed the alcohol as an act of compidiocy to hide the evidence.
Etymology: compulsive: Compelling: Enforces a need to take urgent action, usually an irational one. idiocy: Stupidity: Willful ignorance or unintelligence. Inacted together to form the somewhat cringeworthy yet humourous act of compidiocy.
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COMMENTS:
Cringeworthy ! Hahahahaha ! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-31: 00:44:00
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Redodebooboo
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ree-doo-dee-boo-boo
Sentence: Like Alice in Blunderland, Bob didn't realize he was about to redodebooboo. I watched in amazment as he once again set the office toaster oven to Burnt Beyond Recognition and walk away. Eh, at least we'd get a few minutes out of the office when the fire alarms went off.
Etymology: redo the boo-boo
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COMMENTS:
as in to continually try to sing covers of Michael mcDonald songs "I keep forgetting, I can't sing this high"? - galwaywegian, 2007-06-07: 04:54:00
Re doobie doobie doo. No I mean, redo doobie doobie doo, er redoobie doo doobie, um ... re ... doo, doobie boobie doo sigh! - petaj, 2007-06-07: 08:29:00
You people are merciless!! (sha-doo-bee-doo-wah...) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-07: 09:37:00
maybe the doobie redoobie explains the forgetfulness - perhaps the smoke wasn't from the office toaster - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-07: 11:36:00
The smell would have been much better. Whatever he was cooking stunk like hell. - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-07: 11:41:00
whenever someone burns toast in our office everyone yells "group stroke" - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-07: 11:55:00
If you yelled that in my office, you'd likely be molested! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-07: 12:03:00
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Repetiblunder
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: reh - PET - uh - blun - der
Sentence: Basil was pretty dense and seemed to miss the fact that once he made a mistake he was under no obligation to repetiblunder and repeat it over and over.
Etymology: Blend of repetitive or repetitious and blunder.
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COMMENTS:
Quite jolly! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-30: 17:23:00
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Dumbsquared
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dum-squared
Sentence: Len dumsquareded when it came to booze - it never was the enormous amount of alcohol that poisoned his system, it was always the bad chicken wings.
Etymology: dumb X dumb = extremely stupid
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COMMENTS:
Wow, I wish I'd thought of this one! - texmom, 2007-06-07: 12:08:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy! ~ James
jadenguy - 2007-06-07: 08:49:00
I only made the word because I really wanted a word to use to describe this. In hindsight, I probably should have also tried to come up with one... This wont' be the last time that happens.
evan - 2008-07-30: 11:59:00
Uh, wouldn't this qualify as 'Addiction?'
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy. ~ James
no word right now - but the drawing cracked me up again!!