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DEFINITION: v. To be angry and disappointed (and secretly embarrassed) when your children grow up to make the same foolish mistakes that you did. n. The emotion parents feel when they see their children make the same mistakes they did.
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Herediot
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: heh-red-ee-ot
Sentence: "Honey don't you feel like an herediot when your son kicks the ball with his laces untied like you do?"
Etymology: hereditary/heridity + idiot
Dunderchild
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dəndərchīld
Sentence: It*s no wonder Joe is embarrassed by his dunderchild. After all, Junior has inherited almost everything he knows from his nincompop.
Etymology: dunderhead (a stupid person) + child (a son or daughter)
Kidisillusioned
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ki-dis-ill-oozh-und
Sentence: When I found out my son had gotten drunk and driven home despite my warnings not to, I was entirely kidisillusioned
Etymology: kid + disillusioned
Heirroneous
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: air-roh-nee-us
Sentence: Like his father, and his father's father before him, Tim heirroneously believed money could buy him happiness.
Etymology: heir + erroneous (containing or derived from error)
Parappointment
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: pair-ah-point-ment
Sentence: I can't believe she spent that money on her hair, Marcy said to her manicurist.
Etymology: parent+disappointment
Dejablues
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: day-zyar-bloo-s
Sentence: Groucho and Binky were hoping to send their daughter Nelly to university, but were suffering dejablues when she packed herself off to the circus
Etymology: From de-ja-vu (the feeling of repeating a past event) and having the blues (depression)
Parentlament
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pah-RENT-la-ment
Sentence: Randy and Sandy are typical parents who share with each other a great deal of parentlament when their kids ignore good advice and make the same mistakes they themselves made as teens.
Etymology: Blend of 'parent' (a father or mother) and 'lament' (a passionate expression of grief or sorrow)
Irrinfintated
Created by: katiesavard
Pronunciation: ee-rin-fin-tate-ed
Sentence: To be angry and disappointed (and secretly embarrassed) when your children grow up to make the same foolish mistakes that you did. n. The emotion parents feel when they see their children make the same mistakes they did.
Etymology: irritated, infant - irrinfintated
