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DEFINITION: v., To ignore a "friend" at work because you don't want anyone else to know that you are friends. n., A co-worker and secret "best friend" with whom it is best to keep your friendship confidential.
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Snubjugate
Created by: badsnudge
Pronunciation: \ˈsnəb-ji-ˌgāt\
Sentence: Felicia would often snubjugate her office-mate when others were around yet would confide and even depend upon Molly when alone.
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin 'snubguts'
Confidont
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
Slitch
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: S L "ICH"
Sentence: Becky was always sliching through the office, just waiting.
Etymology:
Snubordinate
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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Cubevert
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: kyub-VERT / enn-IG-maydz
Sentence: Sarah and Tammy had been cubevertly seeing each other despite being coworkers, however, as enigmaides they were having trouble concealing what happened during lunch hour.
Etymology: cube (as in cubicle) + covert / enigma + aides
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COMMENTS:
Wow, sorry for the late entry! I nealy missed this. - MrDave2176, 2007-10-25: 22:13:00
oh I just thought of another one...dissenfriendchise - MrDave2176, 2007-10-25: 22:16:00
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Assocignorade
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: uh-soh-shee-ig-nawr-ad
Sentence: John refused to meet his assocignorade, Jayne, for lunch because of the company policy forbidding office romances.
Etymology: Middle English associaten Latin ignōrāre French camarade
Differsociate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: dif-er-SOSE-she-ayt
Sentence: Peggy Sue was a social climber as well as being professionally ambitious and she made social distinctions in public between those who could help or who might hinder her professionally as well as socially and would only associate with 'substandard' friends in private...to her, to differsociate was a survival mechanism more than it was a social aberration.
Etymology: Blend of 'differentiate' (to make a distinction) and 'associate' (to join as a companion, partner, or ally)
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COMMENTS:
clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-23: 10:18:00
Is that like differsity? - Nosila, 2008-09-23: 12:49:00
I'll bet Becky Sue, in her attempt to "sniff out" who would help and who would hinder...I am sure she has done quite a bit of kissassociating. :) - lumina, 2008-09-23: 16:56:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
lumina - 2008-09-25: 12:01:00
"Yay!" :)
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James