{"id":1393,"date":"2012-01-23T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2012-01-23T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:00:06","slug":"muckerupper-dang-missed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Muckerupper: Dang! Missed again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To insist on helping someone solve a problem only to make it worse&#8230; much worse. <em>n.<\/em> The satisfaction that comes from knowing you have done your best to help someone, even if it did not turn out as well as expected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/bug.gif\" alt=\"Dang! Missed again.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Muckerupper<\/strong>:  \/<em>muk-er-up-er<\/em>\/ Marvin was the biggest muckerupper when it came to repairing anything electronic.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Mucker- One who mucks up: Informal<br \/>\nTo bungle, damage, or ruin.<\/p>\n<p>Upper- To think you have the upper hand and are on top of things. <em>Created by:<\/em> abrakadeborah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windfail<\/strong>:  \/<em>winf\u00c4\u0081l<\/em>\/ Having a friend help with her homework turned out to be a major winfail. He knew less about the subject than she did. He was apparently interested in a wholly different form of chemistry. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  windfall (an unexpected, unearned, or sudden gain or advantage) + fail (to fall short) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contemptment<\/strong>:  \/<em>k\u00c9\u2122n\u00cb\u02c6t\u00c9\u203am(p)tm(\u00c9\u2122)nt<\/em>\/ George was so full of contemptment for his neighbours he just loved giving them a dig out, a generous helping of klutz pie was always on hand when George was around. Alas, by the time he was finished he needed an alias. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  A fusing of 1-contempt: a feeling of disrespect or scorn 2-contentment  a feeling of inner peace and satisfaction <em>Created by:<\/em> scrabbelicious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Badsist<\/strong>:  \/<em>bad sist<\/em>\/ No one ever asked Eddy for help, but he always popped up when something needed done and usually made it worse. His killing flies with a sledgehammer was just another way he could badsist his friends&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Bad (not good,having undesirable or negative qualities) &amp; Assist (help) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=bug\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=bug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To insist on helping someone solve a problem only to make it worse&#8230; much worse. n. The satisfaction that comes from knowing you have done your best to help someone, even if it did not turn out as well as expected. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Muckerupper: \/muk-er-up-er\/ Marvin was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Muckerupper: Dang! Missed again.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}