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DEFINITION: v. To make the same mistake over and over again even though you know it's stupid. n. A compulsively repeated mistake.
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Regiterate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: re-git-err-ayt
Sentence: those damn infomercials with their flashy steak knives and their tempting V-slicers....i try to stay strong but i always end up regiterating.
Etymology: reiterate, git
Redumbdunce
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: ree-dum'-duntz
Sentence: Donna was in a good mood - she had just hooked up with a new boyfriend. She'd been visiting her last boyfriend, in prison, when she'd met Spike, just being released on parole. But when Donna called sister to tell her about Spike, her sister said it was another act of 'redumbdunce.' Her last ten boyfriends had all been convicts and criminals.
Etymology: A combination of the words; Redundance (repetition of the same meaning, but using different words), Dumb (lacking in common sense) and Dunce (a person who is stupid or slow to learn)
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COMMENTS:
Happy New Year everyone! - Tigger, 2009-12-31: 01:40:00
And Happy New Year to you! Alas, poor Donna is a creature of conviction! - Nosila, 2009-12-31: 11:01:00
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Misfudgement
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: mis/fudj/ment
Sentence: Not willing to admit that he kept making the same mistake over and over again, Joel once again convinced himself that his decision to have that midnight latte the night before his 6 a.m. presentation was nothing more than a misfudgement...something a 5 a.m. latte could cure.
Etymology: Derived from misjudgement. Fudge: Slang/nice way of saying...yes...the "f" word. :)
Stupidtition
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: stu-pid-ti-tion
Sentence: The boys at We Tappa Kegga fraternity house practiced stupidtition when it came to partying and had the motto of "Stupid is as stupid does." They proudly boasted of being the biggest party frat on campus and were completely unconcerned that they never went to class or opened their books. Since they spent all their time killing off their brain cells with beer parties, they were the only students to leave school dumber than when they started.
Etymology: stupid: tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes + repetitition: repeating "Stupid is as stupid does" is a line from the movie Forrest Gump.
Obooboosessive
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: əboōboōsesesiv
Sentence: Roger’s collection of traffic tickets is a clear indication that his need for speed is obooboosessive.
Etymology: obsessive (preoccupy or fill the mind to a troubling extent) boo-boo (mistake)
Repligress
Created by: iago150
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After the fourth slap in the face, he realized that he was just repligressing.
Etymology: Replicate + trangress
Dohbletake
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: doh! + bull + take
Sentence: She flung a plate at him which shattered, but it missed so she was angry enough for a dohbletake and threw another.
Etymology: Doh!
Redundergoof
Created by: gdread
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Alice trails the handsome, tattooed stranger, blithely ignoring her unfortunate tendency toward romantic redundergoofs.
Etymology: redundant + goof (both in the sense of "error" and the slang epithet for "stupid person")
Errerrerr
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: roll the Rs /eh-reh-rehr/
Sentence: Erin erroneously erred and chose to errerrerr the same errerrerr again.
Etymology: a repeated mistake... a repeated "err"
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COMMENTS:
Ha! I hadn't seen yours when I did the same word (spelled diff.). You got my vote! - Alchemist, 2007-06-08: 06:47:00
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Compulserror
Created by: kietra
Pronunciation: com-PULS-e-ROR
Sentence: He could stop compulserroring!
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Sorry! I didn't know everyone else's was so long... now I feel incompetent. :( - kietra, 2007-06-07: 09:51:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy! ~ James
jadenguy - 2007-06-07: 08:49:00
I only made the word because I really wanted a word to use to describe this. In hindsight, I probably should have also tried to come up with one... This wont' be the last time that happens.
evan - 2008-07-30: 11:59:00
Uh, wouldn't this qualify as 'Addiction?'
Today's definition was suggested by jadenguy. Thank you jadenguy. ~ James
no word right now - but the drawing cracked me up again!!