MISCONFUSION
I took that phone message, maybe, but I'm not sure what they wanted. I'm sorry, my bad...misconfusion.
MISCONFUSION by Brettleby January 4, 2012
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Misconfusication
A popular misconception accepted by a group of misinformed people; usually based on something real, and supported by claims that seem to lend it credibility by association but, which is itself false. A problem created by assumption rather than fact checking. Perpetuated by passing that false information to others.
Hey, that FB article you told me about reading, the one about scientists from MIT creating a pig that could fly, that was misconfusication yo! You left out the part about them strapping it to a rocket!
Misconfusication by Click1978 April 11, 2015
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disconfusion
I was looking around for the subway train without a hope, then I noticed the map which greatly aided in my disconfusion.
disconfusion by J*Star* December 9, 2008
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)