{"id":1531,"date":"2012-09-14T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2012-09-14T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:01:47","slug":"blunderstruck-what-do-you-mean-youre-not-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"Blunderstruck: What do you mean, you&#8217;re not coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> The moment of awareness when you realize that have you made a huge mistake on a big project, and will have to start all over again, from the very beginning. <em>v.<\/em> To suddenly realize that you are going to fail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/restart.gif\" alt=\"What do you mean, you're not coming?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blunderstruck<\/strong>:  \/<em>bluhn-der-struhk<\/em>\/ Susan was completely blunderstruck, standing at the alter when she realized that nobody had been assigned to pick up her brother\/minister at the airport. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  blunder (to make a gross or stupid mistake) thunderstruck (dumbfounded, flabbergasted) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enblightenment<\/strong>:  \/<em>en-BLI-ten-ment<\/em>\/ The note from her fianc\u00c3\u00a9 saying &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry&#8221; led to Fiona&#8217;s enblightenment &#8211; two hours before her wedding was to go ahead. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  enlightenment (state of understanding) + blight (plague or curse) <em>Created by:<\/em> Discoveria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happyeverdisaster<\/strong>:  \/<em>hap pee ever dis ast er<\/em>\/ Once upon a time, when your old flame turned up at our wedding, I knew that I would be marooned. She was not there as an invited guest, but a date for the bridegroom! And they lived happyeverdisaster&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Wordplay opposite of Happily Ever After, the fairy tale ending&#8230; <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Realhorrolize<\/strong>:  \/<em>Reel hore oh lies<\/em>\/ Prince Daviidu&#8217;s eyes opened wide in realhorrolization. &#8220;I realhorrolize it now, oh woe to the error in my stirde, to be abash of these things I&#8217;ve done is all that I can ask of you sweet shaman. . .&#8221; The wise wizard looked at his soul and said. &#8220;No.&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Realize + horror, aggulutinative <em>Created by:<\/em> AlouattaPigra.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=restart\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=restart<\/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: n. The moment of awareness when you realize that have you made a huge mistake on a big project, and will have to start all over again, from the very beginning. v. To suddenly realize that you are going to fail. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Blunderstruck: \/bluhn-der-struhk\/ Susan was completely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blunderstruck: What do you mean, you&#8217;re not coming?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/1531"}],"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=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}