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DEFINITION: A person who, using an example from their own life, steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing it to an absurdity.
Verboticisms
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Exampulous
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: ex-amp-yu-lous
Sentence: Saying that you had a wooden brain makes you exampulous.
Etymology: example + ridiculous
Granddiculer
Created by: bigbigjeff
Pronunciation: grand-dic-you-ler
Sentence: My father was such a granddicular. Constantly talking about his childhood plight, how his parents made him wear concrete shoes.
Etymology: Grand- old or great, diculer from ridiculous for absurd or innane
Nonsensicalist
Created by: zebrahdh
Pronunciation: non-sense-ick-al-ist
Sentence: Claims of walking to and from school, uphill both ways, are the rants of a nonsensicalist.
Etymology:
Histonag
Created by: imashelcha
Pronunciation: HI.sto.nag
Sentence: Mt dad is such a histonag. I wish he didn't have to constantly relive his childhood like this.
Etymology: History + nag
Sillustrator
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: SIL-uh-strey-ter
Sentence: A sillustrator is a person who, when asked by his son for the latest computer, blurts out "If necessity is the mother of invention, how do all the unnecessary gadgets, like computers, get invented?"
Etymology: Blend of silly & illustrator
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COMMENTS:
Chuckling over your fun word that is right on the definition. The alliteration of the s's the ll's the t's and r's ... even makes it fun to say! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-03: 16:00:00
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Uphillbothwaysian
Created by: Kazizzle
Pronunciation: uh/pill/bowth/waze/ian
Sentence: Dad: ... in the pouring rain! Son: You're such an uphillbothwaysian, Dad!
Etymology: The hyperbole every child is told. "When I was a kid, I had to walk uphill both ways in 10 feet of snow to get to school!"
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COMMENTS:
100/100 for creativeness! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-04: 04:32:00
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Weniwasalad
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: wen eye wuz a lad
Sentence: Dad said in his annoying weniwasalad manner that Darcy didn't need a computer, because he had already bought her a protractor even though they did not live on a farm!
Etymology: when I was a lad...nuff said
Diversionidiot
Created by: legion
Pronunciation: Di-ver-sion-id-i-ot
Sentence: Yeah well I got a lead brain and wood for a pencil, jeez dad your such a DIVERSIONIDIOT.......
Etymology: diversion-to divert idiot-hehehe we all know this one!!!
Pastxaggerator
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: pas-tex-aj-er-eyt-or
Sentence: My father was quite the pastxaggerator, sometimes I think I miss those imaginary tales.
Etymology: past:as in the time when our old were young+exaggerator:someone who stretches the truth
Nostooglia
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: no-stewg-lyah
Sentence: Martin usually breaks into a nostooglic rant about only having rocks and dead animals to play with when his grandkids complain about being bored.
Etymology: nostalgia + stooge
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! A person who discourages another from becoming a stooge ... a nostooglia. Very clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-03: 15:52:00
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