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'Wow, you haven't changed since high school!'

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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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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heh - galwaywegian, 2010-01-29: 08:08:00

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Snobrelating

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Snob-ree-late-ing

Sentence: She knew she had risen above them but couldnt help indulging in a bit of snobrelating with the riffraff

Etymology: Snob - relate

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Nostannoy

Created by: ethan1

Pronunciation: NAHST-annoy

Sentence: Hey, I think that guy getting on the bus works out at our gym. Hope he's not going to be a nostannoy.

Etymology: Nostalgia + annoy

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Myfacefriend

petaj

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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Acquainthunts

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ah-kwaint-hunts

Sentence: the arrival of Google, Myspace and Facebook have made acquainthunts easier than ever.

Etymology: acquaintence, hunt

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Clever! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-01: 09:29:00

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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

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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

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Faceirk

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: fāsərk

Sentence: As a member of the class reunion planning committee Diane is fielding quite a few new requests to be ”friends”. She has had to block more people than a halfback as her irritating former classmates faceirk her with the details of their politics and/or boring lives.

Etymology: face (the front part of a person\'s head from the forehead to the chin) irk (irritate; annoy) a play on facebook

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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'.

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Alumnerd

artr

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)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-10-01: 00:01:00
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 !

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-01-29: 00:05:00
Today's definition was suggested by OZZIEBOB. Thank you OZZIEBOB. ~ James