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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.
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Reunionsult
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re-YUNE-yin-sult
Sentence: Germond loved to go back to his hometown each year to meet up with old classmates, and he'd invariably seek out his former detractors to hammer them with reunionsults and to boast about the great success he'd achieved in his life.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'reunion' and 'insult'.
Peeplechase
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: people-chase
Sentence: Leanna had faced a number of hurdles along the way. Her computer had crashed when she added the Friendster ap and 6 of her ex-friends from school had blocked her friend requests. But she now had a grand total of 630 'friends' in her social network and felt that her peeplechase had been a huge success.
Etymology: steeplechase (a foot race run on a cross-country course or over a course having obstacles, as ditches, hurdles, or the like, which the runners must clear) + peeps (as in people)
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COMMENTS:
I keep imagining little marshmallow chicks jumping over wicker hurdles when I see this word. - MrDave2176, 2007-10-01: 13:29:00
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Reunidiotion
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ree-yoon-id-ee-uht-yuhn
Sentence: Because he was bored, he poked her back and accepted her friend request. He realised that she would take this as his reunidiotion so to annoy her he posted her grad picture which was the most horrendous thing ever.
Etymology: reunion + idiot
Tracehellement
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Treis-hell-E-ment
Sentence: Bob, googled and gazette-gawped, hoping to find Trixy, who friends said had turned, since school days, from a termagant to a "ten" But, finally, when the folketchup took place, there was nothing saucy about her. Trixy was an "aghast from the past." Bob, blunderstruck and aghasthenic, conceded that the whole episode had been a total tracehellement. He vowed that he would never allow himself to tracehellementate again.
Etymology: Blend of trace & hell & element. element:one of the facts in the enquiry. Folketchup=folkatchup. Aghasthenic: weakened by surprize and horror.
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COMMENTS:
Great word and sentence OZ! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-01: 09:28:00
you always get my vote for your sentences - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-01: 12:24:00
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Myfacefriend
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: my-face-frend
Sentence: It was a sad day when Greg Arious realised that he'd gone way too far online networking. He had 656 contacts, most of whom were myfacefriends. It was time unfriend them.
Etymology: Myspace & Facebook social networking sites where people collect "friends" and renew acquaintances with folks they haven't seen or heard for years.
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COMMENTS:
How does one unfriend them?? - Nosila, 2010-01-29: 10:39:00
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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.
Dejadupe
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: deja/dupe
Sentence: Tommy was a victim and total loser in high school and fifteen years has passed. He discovered Face-Book and began dejaduping his way through all the names seeking old friendships and acquaintances to renew hostilities toward himself.
Etymology: deja vu + dupe
Reminoyance
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛməˈnɔɪəns/
Sentence: The urge for reminoyance can be hopeful (e.g. hoping that the school hottie has gotten nicer, is still attractive, and is now single) or pitiful (e.g. hoping that the ugly dork who asked you out hasn't gotten meaner, is now attractive, and is still single).
Etymology: From annoyance + reminiscence
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COMMENTS:
Not to be confused with reminimosity (e.g. wanting to see which fast food joint the jock who bullied you ended up at) or reminipentance (e.g. wanting to see which software company the dork you bullied is now the CEO of). - ErWenn, 2007-10-01: 09:50:00
Superb! I particularly like the companion suite of words. Reminimosity is something I've engaged in myself... - Nettle, 2007-10-01: 09:56:00
Great effort-some great words - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-01: 18:23:00
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Nonchalhaunt
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: non + shall + ont
Sentence: I nonchalhaunted a few people I went to school with... maybe I'll get together with them, maybe not.
Etymology: nonchalant + haunt
Cacheualocate
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: cash-u-el-O-cate
Sentence: Mark was bored so he hopped on Google in an attempt to cacheualocate his old high school drug buddies to kill a weekend with. He did manage to bullseyedent one but his MySpace page said he was "Born again" so he was out. Another one Mark managed to interneterrogate had managed to get busted in another state and was serving time. But his last queryquarry was still single and was still living with his parents according to his AdultFriendFinder profile. Interneterrogate: To do deep queries for a specific person on the Internet. Queryquarry: the subject of an interneterrogation. Bullseyedent: Find your queryquarry through interneterrogation.
Etymology: Cache (a store of something) + casual (in the sense of not a deep aquaintance or friend) + locate.
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COMMENTS:
"Queryquarry"- great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-01: 18:09:00
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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