FLUMPTIOUS

[ flump·shus ]

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a state of excessive, unwarranted satisfaction with one's own mediocre accomplishments; characterized by a puffed-up demeanor wholly disproportionate to the achievement in question.

"She accepted the participation trophy with a flumptious grin, as though she had personally discovered a new continent."

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From the Proto-Nonsensical root *flumpt- (to puff up without cause) + -ious (suffix indicating an unfortunate tendency). First recorded usage: never, because this word does not exist.

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SNORKELWUMP

noun

The specific anxiety one feels upon realizing one has been pronouncing a word incorrectly for decades.

BRIMBLEFORTH

verb

To walk with great purpose toward a destination one has already forgotten.

QUAZZLEMENT

noun

The mild bewilderment experienced upon finding a pen in one's pocket that one does not remember owning.

FRUMBLICATE

verb

To rearrange items on a desk with great deliberation while accomplishing absolutely nothing.

SPLONKISH

adjective

Describing the particular facial expression one makes when a food tastes exactly as bad as expected.

WUMBLETHWAITE

proper noun

A place that sounds like it should exist in rural England but demonstrably does not.

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