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DEFINITION: n. A state of irrational irritation, which inevitably develops whenever you work or live with someone whose annoyingly bad habits happen to mirror your own. v. To be annoyed by someone who has the same annoying habits that you do.
Verboticisms
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Stupeeved
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: stoo + peeved
Sentence: I always get stupeeved when the party next door gets louder than my party.
Etymology: stupid + peeved
Mirrirritationalism
Created by: Jaxies
Pronunciation: /mirra-irra-tay-shun-a-lism/
Sentence: "Doug had developed an acute case of mirrirritationalism as his roommate's snoring increased every night. It did nothing to appease his mind that every other night his roommate thought the same thing about him."
Etymology: Mirror + irration + -alism
Sinbiosis
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He and his roommate were stuck in a taxing sinbiosis.
Etymology: sin + symbiosis
Reflustration
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɹifləˈstɹeɪʃən/
Sentence: The annoyance caused by the cohabitation of a neat freak and a slob is nothing compared to the reflustration that ensues when two slobs move in together.
Etymology: From reflect + frustration
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COMMENTS:
I'm voting for you! Delusions make me believe that both of those co-habituations would make good scenarios for a sit-com. Bet someone's already done it... Wayne and Waynetta Slob (by Harry Enfield) comes to mind. - Bulletchewer, 2007-04-04: 14:38:00
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Marcelmarceauism
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: mar/sell/mar/sew/ism
Sentence: Who would have thought a co-worker would arrive dressed as a mime (my usual attire) and cause such marcelmarceauism.
Etymology: Marcel Marceau (famous mime) + ism
Simiproximirate
Created by: zrotv
Pronunciation: sĭm'ə-prŏks-ĭm'ĭ-rāt
Sentence: When you get mad about me not doing the dishes its clear that you're simply getting simiproximirated, because we all know full well that you are not the cleanliest pig in the sty.
Etymology: Simi (from Latin similis, like) + proximity (The state, quality, sense, or fact of being near or next; closeness. from latin proximus, nearest) + irate (Extremely angry; enraged. Latin iratus, from īra, anger)
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COMMENTS:
also, one would exemplify, or suffer from "simiproximiration". - zrotv, 2007-05-14: 03:44:00
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Selfdepiquetion
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: self-de-peek-shun
Sentence: Selfdepiquetion is the most confronting of all twinsanities. That realisation that one's sister is a spitting image of one's personality flaws usually outweighs the pleasures of completing each other's sentences and sharing a wardrobe.
Etymology: self + depict (show in a picture) + pique (noun and verb for anger)
Imithate
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: imm - it - hate
Sentence: he broke his pen imithating my constant pen clicking. it made me smile unti ;i realised that it was my pen.
Etymology: im - to copy hate - to despise
Mirritate
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: mir-ri-tate
Sentence: Jill manages to mirritate david, using the same annoying snort, as she tries to clear her nasil passage.
Etymology: mirror, as in mimick/irritate
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by sasgod.
Thank you sasgod! ~ James
Bulletchewer - 2007-04-04: 04:45:00
I think we've already overdone the "doppelgaenger" idea.
wordmeister - 2007-04-04: 09:17:00
Hey Bulletchewer, Are you slobinmebitchin about the carboncopeeved apeathy? Or, are you just feeling hypocricheesed by today's twinfuriating doppelangers?
Bulletchewer - 2007-04-04: 10:59:00
You tell me, Mr Overkill.
wordmeister - 2007-04-04: 15:49:00
I think it's Olsenation...
Today's definition was suggested by sasgod. Thank you sasgod. ~ James