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DEFINITION: v., To seek out old acquaintances even though you never really knew them that well, or liked them very much, in the first place. n. An old and unwanted friend who has suddenly reappeared.
Verboticisms
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Mingleberry
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: min gull berreeeee
Sentence: these reunions were always the same, the good looking ones were either insufferable show offs or drunkards, leaving the desperate and the mingleberries.
Etymology: mingle, as in social interaction, dingleberry as in a hard piece of poo hanging onto a butt cheek.
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COMMENTS:
mmm, i have a picture in my mind - petaj, 2010-01-29: 05:38:00
You certainly get to the bottom of the issue! - Nosila, 2010-01-29: 10:38:00
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Onleinenstalken
Created by: jimtastic
Pronunciation: on-LINE-en-stalken
Sentence: While onleinenstalken in his underpants on a Saturday night from the computer in his bedroom in his mom’s basement, Jeremy finally found the girl that left the company four years ago on MySpace and sent her a creepy “I miss you” message.
Etymology: A Finnish phrase - now popular in many internet cafes located just below the arctic circle - derived from the English phrase "Online Stalker".
Trigangulate
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: try-gang-yoo-layt
Sentence: He googled every name he could remember, in an effort to trigangulate the whereabouts of his old classmates.
Etymology: triangulate + gang
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COMMENTS:
This is a fantastic word for a slightly different definition. - ErWenn, 2007-10-01: 09:54:00
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Lackquaintance
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lak kwayn tans
Sentence: When Cyndi went to her high school reunion, she still dressed in her best 80's attire. Of course everyone else had dressed in modern day fashions, including the guy she always had a crush on...Seymour Modes. Seymour was now a Magazine Editor and tres moderne! As she later told her geeky friends who were too scared to go to the reunion, she and Seymour had a relationship whereby they were each's lackquaintance. As the night and free booze wore on, they found a cozy corner to re-lackquaint themselves. Luckily it worked out for them. They are now an item and she writes a great retro column for his magazine and he dresses more and more with an eighties influence. Their acquaintenceship no longer lacks anything!
Etymology: Lack ( the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; be without) & Acquaintance (a relationship less intimate than friendship;personal knowledge or information about someone or something)
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COMMENTS:
heh - galwaywegian, 2010-01-29: 08:08:00
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Alumnerd
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: uh-luhm-nurd
Sentence: Jim was looking forward to his class reunion. He really wanted to catch up with his old friends. Instead he somehow found himself caught in a corner with the alumnerds.
Etymology: alumnus (a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university) + nerd (an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit)
Goneraquest
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: gahn-AIR-uh-kwest
Sentence: Dorian began his GONERAQUEST one gray evening when he got spammed by Classmates.com...first he had to ressurectify their names from the dim recesses of his faulty membanks. Using Anywho and Google, he reanimated the memories of his troubled youth and e-mailed the lot. All the yammering yokels of yesteryear were at the reunion, including his old crush, Peggy- whose orange hair erupted like a lava flow from a long-dormant volcano. Quickly quaffing quantities of questionable punch, a dismayed Dorian deduced that his GONERAQUEST had gone awfully awry. It all came rushing back to him like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist. He never really liked these people in high school, and the years had not been kind to them as they ripened into paunchy portraits of their former selves. Dorian schlumped home and took a fatal dose of repentathol - never to GONERAQUEST again.
Etymology: GONe+ERA+QUEST=GONERAQUEST.....GONE:possessed with a strong attachment or a foolish or unreasoning love or desire-from past participle of go.....ERA:fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned; a memorable or important date or event; especially : a period in the history of a person-Late Latin aera, from Latin, counters.....QUEST:an act or instance of seeking; a chivalrous enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey and an alcohol-drenched pseudofestival -Middle English, from Anglo-French queste.
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COMMENTS:
See ancient webites archived at:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
-it's a blast from the past. - metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:47:00
You can go Verbotomize back to 2006...but don't forget the "forward slash". - metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:55:00
Gone but not forgotten...that's our quest! - Nosila, 2008-09-02: 01:54:00
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Refrenemy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: re fren emee
Sentence: When Janet met Brad again at the reunion, she realized he had become a refrenemy. He not only hated her hair and her dress style, (She was sure the invitations stated retro 80's look, so as people could recognize each other) but he also was still an older but more judgmental geek. It was when she caught him making out with Sue (she of the Just Sue Me! fame) that she realized he was just "Desparately Seeking Susan" and not really into the fact that she was Madonna's personal assistant! Loser!
Etymology: Re-friend (a person with whom you are re-acquainted) & Enemy (a hostile individual, not in your support group)
Highschoolwhosaryou
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Hi-skool-hoos-r-u
Sentence: Derek was forever telling his wife how popular he had been at school, so when he was invited to a school reunion he jumped at the chance, deluding himself that his fellow pupils would be delighted to see him again after all these years. He arrived promptly on the night and sought out everyone who looked vaguely familiar and introduced himself with great ethusiasm only to be greeted with puzzled looks and much highschoolwhosaryou expressions.
Etymology: Highschool(a place of learning) + Who are you? = Highschoolwhosareyou
Memorylame
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: mem-uh-ree-leyn
Sentence: Ken caught the memorylame bug. He was feeling insecure and imagined all of the people from his past were more succesful than him. He soon found that he was doing being better than most, being retired at forty.
Etymology: memory lane + lame
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COMMENTS:
Excellent! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-01: 18:24:00
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Abberrassociate
Created by: Kevcom2
Pronunciation: uh/burgh/uh/sose/ee/eight
Sentence: I happened to stumble upon an old abberrassociate at the mall the other day. She was wearing the same outlandish clothes that she used to wear in high school.
Etymology: Aberrant - weird; associate - aquaintance.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by OZZIEBOB and Karuma. Thank you OZZIEBOB and Karuma! ~ James
Nettle - 2007-10-01: 08:42:00
I've done exactly this myself. It rarely seems to lead to anything good, other than the occasional moment of smug satisfaction which comes from knowing that you're much more successful than the people who used to bully you at school (but it's not really satisfaction, because didn't you know, deep down, that they'd never amount to anything anyway?)
galwaywegian - 2008-09-01: 07:42:00
like it !
Today's definition was suggested by OZZIEBOB. Thank you OZZIEBOB. ~ James