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DEFINITION: n. A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity. v. To dismantle a logical argument with piles of passionate incoherence.
Verboticisms
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Wrang-wrang
Created by: vonnegut
Pronunciation: rang-rang
Sentence: There was a sign around my dead cat's neck. It said, "Meow." I have not seen Krebbs since. Nonetheless, I sense that he was my karass. If he was, he served it as a wrang-wrang.
Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for Cat's Cradle, published in 1963.
Egodote
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: E-go-dough-t
Sentence: For fear of his horrible stories,the youth of the family stayed away from their egodote, great-grandfather.
Etymology: Ego-self dote, from anecdote.
Illustrationgist
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ill/us/tray/shun/jist
Sentence: Her dad was the ultimate illustrationgist - he reduced every conversation to taking a walk down memory lane
Etymology: illustration (example) + gist (meaning)
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COMMENTS:
Ooh, this is an interesting spin on the definition. - playdohheart, 2007-04-18: 07:37:00
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Theartfuldredger
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: the/artful/dred/jur
Sentence: Theartfuldredger is the most unpopular guest at a party.
Etymology: the artful dodger + dredge (as in up from the past)
Fauxistoric
Created by: paperhoard
Pronunciation: foe-is-towrick
Sentence: When Jim was confronted with the elevated electric bill, he went into a a fauxistoric rampage babbling about human beings being used as batteries...
Etymology: faux + history
Babblogic
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: babel - ojik
Sentence: Cecil's usual babblogic behavior befuddled even the most intelligent person. He was a babblegic in the truest sense in that he could expound a subject for hours and you came away not understanding the point of anything he had said.
Etymology: babble (say or speak incoherently), logic
Prepostulate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pre-PAWST-yew-layt
Sentence: In giving reasons to others in defense of his sometimes goofy notions, Elmer would regularly prepostulate, rambling on with odd and sometimes even bizarre rationale.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'preposterous' (adj. contrary to nature, reason, or common sense) and 'postulate' (to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing)
Nickelogic
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: nik-uhl-oj-ik
Sentence: Quaxor IV had to check his Gygle brain chip to determine what his great great grandfather meant by "Back in my day that coke cost a nickel!!", Gygle informed him that it was an obsolete form of currency used back in his elder's heyday but it didn't say how the boy should interpret the strange nickelogic.
Etymology: Nickel - Logic
Prehistorer
Created by: greenheatherbutterfly
Pronunciation: just say it as you see it.
Sentence: He had such prehistoric values in life, he was such a prehistorer!!!
Etymology:
Reproofool
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: re-PRUFE-fool
Sentence: Gran is a veteran reproofool. Every time my cell phone rings, he starts in about "Walking 20 miles to school, uphill both ways..."
Etymology: reproof, fool
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Kurt Vonnegut and first appeared in his novel Cat's Cradle.
Thank you Mr. Vonnegut! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by vonnegut. Thank you vonnegut. ~ James