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DEFINITION: v. To push yourself so hard to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you undercut your own success. n. An impossibly high goal which practically guarantees failure.
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Peakawoe
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: PEEK-a-woo
Sentence: She totally peekawoed when she spent 7 hours on the hors d'oeuvre alone, only to find all the guests had long gone by the time it was ready to be served.
Etymology: From "to peak": to bring to a maximum of development, value or intensity, and "woe": deep distress or misery. Made to sound like peek-a-boo for easy remembering.
Disastorious
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: di-sas-tor-ee-us
Sentence: Jonathan was going to be the world’s greatest novelist, but he could never get that first sentence right. So he would tell his friends his writing career was disastorious, hoping they would think it was something big... rather than something that was just very short.
Etymology: glorious + disaster
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COMMENTS:
Novel word! - Nosila, 2009-08-19: 12:09:00
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Peakedout
Created by: kbones
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was so excited that hr was coming over that I peakedout with the hair and make-up I think!
Etymology:
Overundoing
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: oh-ver-un-DOO-ing
Sentence: Simon knew he was overundoing it when he turned his speakers up to "11".
Etymology: over + undone
Overunchieving
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: O-ver-un-chi-ving
Sentence: As she had PMS, he tried being quiet and out of the way. Unfortunately his overunchieving mind made him trip over noisy furniture, tickle her feet, and generally fail everything he set out to do.
Etymology: overachieve - do better than expected unchieve - do worse when trying
Nosestrive
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: nose-strive
Sentence: Garfunkel, who only wanted to look sharp, would often nosestrive while working on his makeup, forgetting that one also requires pants to make a good impression.
Etymology: strive + nosedive
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COMMENTS:
Good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-16: 10:12:00
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Obsessernaught
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ob-SES-her-not
Sentence: Stan was always hyped up about achieving goals to the point of being totally obsessed with success, but his standards were so high that he only succeeded in becoming an obsessernaught.
Etymology: Blend of 'obsessed' (To preoccupy the mind of excessively) and 'naught' (nothing, nil)
Shootfooter
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: shoot foot er
Sentence: daniel was a first class shootfooter, he was known to go 3 steps further than anyone else trying to do his best, then he would realize after he suffered 10 times more pain that anyone else because he'd shot himself in the foot.
Etymology: from shooting ones self in the foot trying to be clever.
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COMMENTS:
Hey, I think that this is what this game is all about -- shootfooting. It's kind of like playing chicken with yourself... - wordmeister, 2007-01-16: 10:28:00
I can agree with you there. even my job ( I fix computers) is the same. I'm daily trying to do myself out of a job by fixing things. - erasmus, 2007-01-17: 10:00:00
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Amputoimperfecto
Created by: alona
Pronunciation: amp-YOU-toe-imperfect-oh
Sentence: He went totally amputoimperfecto before the date and nearly shaved his mouth off.
Etymology: amputo - amputate, cut off. from latin. imperfecto - imperfect, latin.
