Verboticism: Duhnial
DEFINITION: v. To deny that you have stupidly injured yourself for fear of punishment or ridicule. n. A person who won't admit it when they shoot themselves in the foot (which they seem to do quite often).
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Oneyedeneyer
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: wun + ahyd + dee + niur
Sentence: Rosemary was clumsy and ashamed to admit that she walked into walls, tripped over air and ripped her skin off when she shaved. But the day she took out her eye tweezing her eyebrows made her a oneyedeneyer..... Despite the fact that she was missing an eye, she could not bring herself to admit that she had done it herself and went into oneyedenial....
Etymology: one + eyed + deny + denier (spelled to match the missing eye)...
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COMMENTS:
We are keeping an eye on you...just the one! - Nosila, 2009-04-14: 20:20:00
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Idioticconsealer
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: i-dē-ˈä-tik-kən-ˈsēl-lər
Sentence: Barbie was curling her eyelashes when she answered a phone call... then,propped the phone on her shoulder and against her ear...she had her eyelash curler in one hand, squeezing it tightly to curl her lashes...Barbie bent over to pick up her mirror on the table with her free hand and the phone fell off her shoulder! She tried to catch the phone as it fell and she accidently jerked ALL of her eyelashes completely out of her eye! Ed says," Barbie your eye is bleeding!" To which Barbie replies,"Oh Ed it's fine I have no lashes...I'll just use my "idioticconsealer", it works on all of my blunders and I'll apply a little extra liner after my eye stops bleeding. Ed,is just stares in horror at Barbie and just wishes she had a brain and wasn't such an "idioticconsealer!" so often and won't ever admit her mistakes!
Etymology: Idiotic:showing complete lack of thought or common sense:foolish. Concealer:(Double meaning & play on the two meanings) 1 : one that conceals 2 : a cosmetic used to conceal blemishes or discoloration especially around or under the eyes...(Wink,Wink) ;)
Oopsadummy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: oŏpsēdəmē
Sentence: Most mothers are happy when their newborn has the requisite number of fingers and toes. Wendel's mother feels the need to take periodic inventory. Wendel is a klutz who has been teased to the point he hides his injuries to avoid ridicule. In doing this he has become an oopsadummy. She has only had to take to the ER once so far when he almost severed his arm with a blade server.
Etymology: oopsy-daisy (used to express encouragement to a child who has fallen) + dummy (a stupid person)
Deadnial
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ded-nahy-uh
Sentence: Denise has always been known as a contrarian. Whatever the subject, she will be on the opposite side of any argument than the majority. Last week she was involved in a car accident. She was declared DOA when she arrived at the hospital. In a serious case of deadnial, she sat up and demanded to be seen by a doctor. As long as refuses to believe in her demise she will probably stay around to contradict the status quo.
Etymology: dead (no longer living) + denial (disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing)
Duhnial
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: duh-NYL
Sentence: Sheena was da queena duhnial. She was clumsy, disorganized and more than a little uncoordinated and frequently injured herself or damage some item she was working with but would instantly duhny any serious damage had occurred.
Etymology: Blend of 'duh' and 'denial'
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COMMENTS:
A word of great duhplicity! Exduhllent! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-14: 11:46:00
Duhlightful, Mustang! - Nosila, 2009-04-14: 20:23:00
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Disemvowelment
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dis em vow el ment
Sentence: When Ted found Wendy with her eye hanging out after an eye makeup accident, he was concerned. Her denial became a disemvowelment of the seriousness of her conditon. He reckoned they should call it misscara.
Etymology: Disavow (refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with) & Disembowelment (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)
Refutabuse
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ree-fewt-ah-beuse
Sentence: Usually after she refutabused herself she could piece herself back together swimmingly, but today after she dropped her eyeball on the floor, and after the cat ate it she realised that she should get some therapy.
Etymology: refute (deny) + abuse (injure)
Menodrama
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: mee no draw maw
Sentence: Fay had been clumsy child; and it was no different for her as an adult. In fact she’d become a skilled menodramatist, quick to deny her clumsy acts and carry on. Most times she was accident prone she’d make a menodramatic move to cover the damage.
Etymology: From: ME and NO or not, MELODRAMA. A person who is not melodramatic, especially about being clumsy.
Oopsdenial
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: oŏpsdinīəl
Sentence: With a spoon still stuck up his nose, Harry is in a state of oopsdenial.
Etymology: oops (used to show recognition of a mistake or minor accident, often as part of an apology) + denial (the action of declaring something to be untrue)
Disamvowel
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dis am vow el
Sentence: Wendy was always the first to disamvowel when she had hurt herself accidentally. But when she accidentally poked her eye out, she made more of a spectacle of herself than usual.
Etymology: Disavow (deny;disclaim responsibility for) & Disembowel (remove innards)
