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DEFINITION: To be so obsessed with your own cleverness and wittiness that you don't listen to what anyone else is saying, let alone understand them.
Verboticisms
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Snodeaferous
Created by: moonroof
Pronunciation: snod EFF er us
Sentence: We tried to tell Bill that what he was saying was ridiculous, but he was being too snodeaferous.
Etymology: fr. 'snob' (a stuck-up person) + 'deaf' (being unable to hear)
Buffoonomania
Created by: HALibut
Pronunciation: buh-foon-oh-mey-nee-uh
Sentence: "The classic buffoonomaniac will make innapropriate jokes at weddings and funerals with little or no regard for how his jokes are received." - Studies on the Hysteriacal by Dr. Sigmund Freud
Etymology: < O.It. Buffa (jest) + < Gk. manía (madness)
Egoaunderstanding
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: ee-go-ay-uhn-der-st-an-ding
Sentence: He was so egoaunderstanding that all his friends went to seek someone who would listen and perceive the meaning of what they were saying.
Etymology: From the word ego meaning conceit and self-importance and a meaning without and understanding meaning to perceive the meaning of
Egolalia
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: EE go LAY lee uh
Sentence: I couldn't get a word in over his egolalia.
Etymology: "ego" self and -lalia "speaking" (see glossolalia - speaking in tongues)
Egotesticle
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eee go tesc ick ill
Sentence: His egotesticle behaviour, laughing uproariously at his own jokes and singing to himself while others spoke, left him isolated at breaktimes. He would often wonder (sometimes audibly)how so many lesbians managed to get a job with one company.
Etymology: egotistical, testicle
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COMMENTS:
you do have to give him some credit - he does have balls - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 06:11:00
Balldacious word! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-06: 06:46:00
Aw, nuts... you guys beat me to it. - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 07:36:00
Don't get testy... - Alchemist, 2007-07-06: 08:06:00
cum on people... you'll all get the sac in minute...between this thread and good taste there is a vas deference - rikboyee, 2007-07-06: 08:12:00
HA! Sovary funny rik! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-06: 08:36:00
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Wilder wiener - oops sorry that's for Rikee's word - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 08:43:00
This gamete's pretty funny. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:44:00
So his brain was, where? In escrow Tom. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:56:00
As the wise Greek philosoper Epididymis once commented, "Don't let it all go to your head!" ;D - Kyoti, 2007-07-06: 10:57:00
As the wise Greek philosoper Epididymis once commented, "Don't let it all go to your head!" ;D - Kyoti, 2007-07-06: 11:01:00
Ummm... ignore one of those. Sighhh... - Kyoti, 2007-07-06: 11:03:00
Doesn't that make you gonad when you post a "set"? - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-06: 11:19:00
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Egoignore
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ee-go-ig-norr
Sentence: Lately, Karl egoignored so much so that we named him egoignoramus of the month.
Etymology: ego + ignore
Comments:
MisUndrstd - 2007-07-06: 20:40:00
Say it three times fast... go ahead... I dare ya!
Jabberwocky - 2007-07-06: 23:40:00
tried it - don't get it - but I think the cartoons this week have been excellent - way to go Franke James!!! and your essays are fabulous!