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'Crap! Crap!'

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.

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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

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Lonedeaf

Lapper

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

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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

petaj 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

moonroof

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)

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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

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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)

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Mindiac

Created by: gonzo

Pronunciation: mindddiiac

Sentence: My name is Carl and I´m a mindiac

Etymology: mind, maniac

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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:

petaj 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:

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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!