Verboticisms

Created by: NeuroGlyph

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: cool-eeg

Sentence: Cheryl is so friendly on the weekends but come Monday morning she treats my like a cooleague.

Etymology: colleague + cool

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Created by: Katie

Pronunciation: con-afil-iate

Sentence: I know we are friends but i cant conafiliate with you in public.

Etymology: con+afiliate

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: Krip/mate

Sentence: In the office, Jenny only got phone calls and e-mails from her cryptmate Barb, although they spent most weekends together cruising the night club scene.

Etymology: cryptic + mate

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COMMENTS:

Am I channelling Bobby "Boris Picket here?! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-25: 18:56:00

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: snub/or/din/it

Sentence: On the weekends Tiffany and Becka could be found shopping, lunching and looking for love at the hottest clubs together. Becka didn't mind at all that come Monday she was nothing but Tiffany's snubordinate. "Tiff" promised once she got the keys to the Management lounge, they could...well, that she'd get fresher pastries, after work, outside, in the parking lot, around the corner and two blocks down.

Etymology: Snub: To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight. Suborninate: Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.

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COMMENTS:

She should be brought up on charges of insnubordination. - Mustang, 2008-09-23: 08:16:00

snubbery = opposite of snobbery?? very nice word - yellowbird, 2008-09-23: 18:34:00

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Ah-mee-gohst

Sentence: Janice and Sylvia glanced surreptitiously at the copy machine while tapping a finger on their respective phone receivers to indicate they would meet at 1pm to exchange client information and catch up on office gossip while making xeroxes of company memos. To the untrained eye, it would be difficult to discern that they were actually good amighosts.

Etymology: Amigos: friends + ghosts: invisible visitors.

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Created by: vmalcolm

Pronunciation: /hʌʃmeit/

Sentence: :- "You thought we were friends!!! We are darling, but a new kind of friends which is very hype today: we're hushmates..." (and if you don't like it then hush up).

Etymology: HUSHMATE. Hush (To keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of) + Mate (A person with whom one is in close association; an associate)

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Created by: KenM2

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Sentence: I know we are close, but I must defrienciate our relationship at work.

Etymology: de-friend+differentiate - definition: To remove friendships from the work environment by setting it apart from the non-work relationship.

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Created by: Chickp

Pronunciation: Con-fee-dont

Sentence: My office confidont will remember that we do not talk now but after hours.

Etymology: Confidant + don't

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Created by: brimuth

Pronunciation: non - tock - too - m - eyes

Sentence: The Supervisor's nontoktomise approach to her supposed best friend in the office, upset and annoyed those who witnessed the effect it had on her.

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