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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.

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Redumbdant

libertybelle

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: re-dum-dent

Sentence: I know that eating an entire bag of salt and vinegar chips is going to leave me with a belly ache and a stinging mouth as it's done every other time, but I just can't help being redumbdant.

Etymology: redundant + dumb. Also - i love love the drawing - made me lololol

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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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Arrbeeaye

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: R-B-I

Sentence: Eee by gum, ar Donny's a dolt. Thar ee sits sticking bandaids on his hairy knees. Ee knows it's gonna sting like blazes when he pulls em off, but he keeps on doin it. ee must ave arrbeeaye.

Etymology: RSI (repetitive strain injury) + B is for brain

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petaj forgot to weave in "repetitive brain injury", but I'm sure verbotomists are too clever to have arrbeeaye and would have figured it out anyway. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 03:32:00

I somehow assumed the etymology would include something about overeating Arby's and paying for it later. God knows it's impossible not to. - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 09:11:00

This evokes images of Long John Silver - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-07: 13:37:00

I'm afraid it's baseball season and I only saw "runs batted in". - mplsbohemian, 2007-06-07: 15:18:00

petaj Never heard of Arby's. Sounds like some undesirable franchise we don't need in Australia. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 22:28:00

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Neuerrotic

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: noo/err/rot/ik

Sentence: He was trapped in the cycle of compulsively repeating his mistakes over and over again. He was a classic neuerrotic. Etymology: neurotic + error

Etymology: neurotic + error

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Remming

Created by: neo1096

Pronunciation: reh-ming

Sentence: Are you ever going to stop remming dad?

Etymology: From remaking and withan extra m for mistake

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petaj Oh and what about those lemmings? Renowned for their stupidity running off a cliff each season. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 22:26:00

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Rebotchulate

sanssouci

Created by: sanssouci

Pronunciation: Ree Botch u Late

Sentence: "One of my new year resoulutions for 2010 is to try not to rebotchulate this year, time to move on and succeed"

Etymology: recapitulate - To repeat in concise form botch - mistake

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Recerring

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree kehrring

Sentence: these hangovers were a recerring problem

Etymology: recurring erring

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Fistake

Created by: AliA415

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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Errororor

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: ehr-or-or-or

Sentence: Candice was a compulsive shopaholic. As she applied for yet another credit card, she wondered if she would ever recover from the errororor of her ways...

Etymology: error that does not end...

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Redumbdunce

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: ree-dum'-duntz

Sentence: Donna was in a good mood - she had just hooked up with a new boyfriend. She'd been visiting her last boyfriend, in prison, when she'd met Spike, just being released on parole. But when Donna called sister to tell her about Spike, her sister said it was another act of 'redumbdunce.' Her last ten boyfriends had all been convicts and criminals.

Etymology: A combination of the words; Redundance (repetition of the same meaning, but using different words), Dumb (lacking in common sense) and Dunce (a person who is stupid or slow to learn)

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Happy New Year everyone! - Tigger, 2009-12-31: 01:40:00

And Happy New Year to you! Alas, poor Donna is a creature of conviction! - Nosila, 2009-12-31: 11:01:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-06-07: 00:01:00
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?'

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-12-31: 00:05:00
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy. ~ James

libertybelle libertybelle - 2011-05-11: 10:39:00
no word right now - but the drawing cracked me up again!!