Verboticism: Abjury
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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Dismembermeant
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: dis-mem-ber-meant
Sentence: Rosie would always pretend that her obviously self inflicted bruises and scrapes were no big deal. When she walked into a wall she tried to pass off the black and blue mark as makeup for her performance. When she had a burn mark from making a roast she said that she wanted to get a tatoo and thought she'd see what it looked like first. But the day she came in with two fingers missing after playing with the dog there was no way she could pass it off as dismembermeant.
Etymology: dismember(ment): to lose a limb, sever, amputate + meant: intended, purposeful
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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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)
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)
Flubberup
Created by: memyselfandbo
Pronunciation: fluh-ber-up
Sentence: As Neal looked on, Mandy committed an embarrassing flubberup by tweezing her eyeball instead of her eyelash. Ouch.
Etymology: Flub: to make a mess of. Cover-up: a device or strategy for covering/concealing.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! - Mustang, 2009-04-14: 23:40:00
Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-15: 01:29:00
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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)
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.
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)
