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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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Blooperdupe

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: blu/pur/doop

Sentence: owing to her predisposition to blooperdupe, she had a standing order for large bottles of white out

Etymology: blooper + dupe (repeat)

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petaj I really hate it when I keep making mistakes with the white out and covering up perfectly good text. Is that oopsablooperdupe? - petaj, 2007-06-07: 08:23:00

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Idiomitake

Created by: weareallbeautiful

Pronunciation: ih-dee-aw-m-ih-tay-k

Sentence: Wayne asked himself "Why do I keep doing these things?" right before he made yet another idiomitake by walking into the polished glass door.

Etymology: idiotic+mistake

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Dejadum

Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: day-zsha-dum

Sentence: It's dumb to hammer your thumb but when you do it again and again, it's dejadum.

Etymology: déjàvu + dumb

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Snafubar

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sna foo bar

Sentence: The fact that Jim was almost broke again, late for supper again, his bile duct was doing the Liverdance again and his wife was waiting to kill him when he got home again, did not prevent him from doing the snafubar thing of ordering another one for the road.

Etymology: Blend of 2 American WW 11 military slang acronyms:SNAFU (Situation Normal, All F***ed or Fouled Up and FUBAR (F***ed or Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair)

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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

petaj 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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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

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COMMENTS:

petaj Is that the opposite of erotic? Someone who makes mistakes over and over would hardly be a turn on. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 08:21:00

...unless the mistake involved alcohol and leaving really really early before you woke up. Or so my friend says. - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 09:05:00

Your friend is AKA a "fleesel". - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-07: 12:10:00

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Reviate

Created by: Clayton

Pronunciation: REE-vee-eyt

Sentence: Gunther's proclivity to reviate was chief among the concerns of the local constabulary. No way was he being left alone with any more cadavers.

Etymology: re + deviate

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COMMENTS:

petaj erk. don't want to speculate on this one. - petaj, 2007-06-07: 03:32:00

Was it him, or the cadavers, that made him neuerrotic? - Stevenson0, 2007-06-07: 08:52:00

blame the victim! it's not the cadavers' fault they're irresistible. - jadenguy, 2007-06-07: 09:09:00

Had they not been wearing so little... - Clayton, 2007-06-07: 18:15:00

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Errerrerr

ohwtepph

Created by: ohwtepph

Pronunciation: roll the Rs /eh-reh-rehr/

Sentence: Erin erroneously erred and chose to errerrerr the same errerrerr again.

Etymology: a repeated mistake... a repeated "err"

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COMMENTS:

Ha! I hadn't seen yours when I did the same word (spelled diff.). You got my vote! - Alchemist, 2007-06-08: 06:47:00

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Duhhplicate

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: DUHH-PLIH-KATE

Sentence: Rosco stepped out of the minimum security correctional facility into the pounding sun.Sitting at the bus stop with his cardboard suitcase, he now had to admit that he might just "suck at life"...After three failed marriages and encounters with every known STD, he began to consider that his past dating choices may not have been the best.Foxy english professors were his weakness,but he also harbored a soft spot for lady charter boat captains,tattooed carny babes, radical Irish lassies, Goth chicks and women in any stage of recovery.But his moment of enlightenment passed like a partial eclipse,and his loneliness overtook him yet again. He would rent a room,hold up a gas station and look up his old flame Babs....Yes, that's the ticket! He was sure she'd take him back, and together they could DUHHPLICATE all the great times they had before he got cirrohsis and she fell off the Harley.Yes! Yes! Rosco would DUHHPLICATE his old life-only this time he wouldn't get caught. A cloud of dust enveloped the inter-city bus as it stopped in front of him,and then he saw her stumble off: the most radiant creature ever to corner the nose ring market....

Etymology: DUH+DUPLICATE DUH:der ofr

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx http://zoomquilt.org/ - metrohumanx, 2008-07-30: 01:16:00

Who doesn't love a tatooed carny babe? :) - lumina, 2008-07-30: 04:03:00

Never a DUHll moment, eh? - Nosila, 2008-07-30: 20:59:00

Rosco was a duhhfus - Mustang, 2008-07-30: 22:14:00

I kike it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-31: 02:25:00

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Repetardation

Created by: mopez81

Pronunciation: reh pe tard ay shun

Sentence: "As I drank my thirteenth pint of the afternoon, I knew that this repetardation would do me no good."

Etymology:

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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!!