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DEFINITION: v.To be so obsessed with your own cleverness and wittiness that you don't listen to what anyone else is saying, let alone understand them. v. A person who is obsessed with their own wittiness.
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Autophasia
Created by: qwerty
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: auto = self, phasia from aphasia
Witsnit
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: wit/snit
Sentence: He threw a little "witsnit" when he learned he hadn't been given the Dazzling Daemon of the Day award.
Etymology: An American English expression meaning an extreme state of agitation or angst when not being able to have one's way
Vanwitty
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His vanwitty was so astonishing - he kept himself amused all day with his clever banter
Etymology: vanity + wit
Egotwit
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: e-go-twit
Sentence: Mark was such an egotwit that no one could stand to be around him, especially at parties. He would try so hard to impress everyone with his cleverness that he would end up making a fool of himself.
Etymology: egotist: show-off; know-it-all + wit: cleverness, humorous + twit: a foolishly annoying person
Reparteego
Created by: xMelody
Pronunciation: rep-er-tee-go, -tey-go.
Sentence: He's suffering from an oversized reparteego.
Etymology: repartee; ego
Witticissistic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: wit/ti/sis/sis/tic
Sentence: Paul is a perfectly proud, puffy, pompous witticissistic, unashamed of his own lack of humour in the so-called jokes that he constantly pushes on his unlaughing friends.
Etymology: witticism + narcissistic
Trumpolious
Created by: queeny
Pronunciation:
Sentence: even his wifes had issues with his trumpolious. For god sakes, he even thinks his hair looks good.
Etymology:
Wildething
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: wild-thing
Sentence: As he finished flipping through the scrapbook of his most humourous Tweets. he realised he was becoming quite the wildething
Etymology: Oscar Wilde, Wild Thing
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COMMENTS:
You make my heart sing! - Nosila, 2009-07-17: 10:18:00
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Selflatonomy
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: sell-flat-oh-no-me
Sentence: He was a graduate of the selflatonomy class.
Etymology: self flattering
Narcivated
Created by: Paloma
Pronunciation: NAR-sih-vay-ted
Sentence: John was so narcivated he would laugh at his own pretentious jokes before he'd even said the punchline.
Etymology: Narcissus (Greek hero who fell in love with his own reflection) + captivated
Comments:
- 2006-11-16: 07:11:00
Vanwitty is a good one.
- 2006-11-16: 10:11:00
The sentences need more profile -- they are as amusing as the words: The egowilde chortled at his own jokes so loudly he could not hear anyone else speak.
Nice one Bjorn!
queeny - 2006-11-17: 14:11:00
I wish I could change my vote. sometimes I vote to early in the day. I want to change my vote. please. ps. great colourful cartoons. I love to see them printed up on a shirt or something.
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James