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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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Selfamuse
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: self-amews
Sentence: His selfamuse was so far gone, he cracked himself up.
Etymology: self abuse + amuse
Lonedeaf
Created by: Lapper
Pronunciation: LOAN-def
Sentence: Jake was so lonedeaf during his acceptance speech that he didn't even notice everyone in the audience was tittering about his arrogance.
Etymology: Lone and deaf
Savildroll
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: savy/drohl
Sentence: I am so savidroll that people hang on my every word and imitate me shamelessly. I'm so pretty - I'm so witty....
Etymology: savvy + droll + savile row
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COMMENTS:
and GAAAAYYY!! what a strange coincidence that that song was already in my head before I read your word. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-06: 08:13:00
And sartorially elegant. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 09:08:00
And mercurially resonant. ;D - Kyoti, 2007-07-06: 11:08:00
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Llamabananapajamas
Created by: newspapertragedy
Pronunciation: llama-banana-pajamas
Sentence: "Look at her, her skirt is like soo llamabananapajamas!" "I know, its all confusing."
Etymology: llama+banana+pajamas=llamabananapajamas
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COMMENTS:
I comletely love this word. And I made it upone day walking home with my friend, and that exactly what we said! - newspapertragedy, 2007-07-06: 18:41:00
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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)
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
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)
Mindiac
Created by: gonzo
Pronunciation: mindddiiac
Sentence: My name is Carl and I´m a mindiac
Etymology: mind, maniac
Inappretension
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: in-ap-ri-TEN-shuhn
Sentence: Many think that Gloria's inappretension reached its apogee when she kept referring to Carl Sagan as Bob Saget.
Etymology: inapprehension + pretension
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COMMENTS:
In a pretence too. - petaj, 2007-07-06: 08:49:00
I'll pretense I didn't hear that. - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 12:49:00
now that would be pretenshush - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 13:04:00
Guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, ya gotta help me. I keep thinking that I'm going to tell you, 'I'm a wigwam, I'm a teepee,' and then you're gonna say..." Shrink cuts him off with a heaving sigh and says, "I've got you on a 9:30 next Wednesday. You're pre tents." - Clayton, 2007-07-06: 18:40:00
I think that would be clutching at straw huts - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-06: 23:37:00
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Booger
Created by: princess19sk8r
Pronunciation: boo grrr
Sentence: i found a booger which is green and comes out of your nose.
Etymology:
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!