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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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Comradeslip
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: com/rad/slip
Sentence: Our friendship vaccilated between comradeship and comradeslip when the upper management were within earshot.
Etymology: comradeship + slip
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COMMENTS:
i like your sentence :) - Lidipop, 2007-10-25: 10:37:00
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Privypal
Created by: Kevcom
Pronunciation: pri__/vee/paall | Note: (__) = last 2 letters of the word prick. That is how pri is supposed to be pronounced: just like prick, but without the (ck).
Sentence: Melissa Adams was my best friend all through grade school, high school and university. We even got the same job together, yet we are not friends as much. We do not giggle like we use to in school. This is business, and our conversations cannot be disclosed. We are privypals by day, and aquaintances by night.
Etymology: privy (private) + pal (friend)
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COMMENTS:
Love it: great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-25: 18:59:00
Thankyou! - Kevcom, 2007-10-25: 22:24:00
Nice word Kevin.!! - Stevenson0, 2007-10-26: 07:56:00
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Friendicate
Created by: svnfsvn
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Me and bob friendicated during happyhour.
Etymology: friend + syndicate
Cryptopal
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: crip-toe-pal
Sentence: Clay and Doug worked at the same company but their immediate bosses were locked in a vicious feud so they were strictly cryptopals at work.
Etymology: crypto + pal. Origin from Greek kruptos 'hidden.'
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COMMENTS:
Cute...so Superman's secret friend is a Kryptopal?? - Nosila, 2010-02-23: 00:30:00
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Sorpe
Created by: FreakoSpeako
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The lady sorped her friend for her job.
Etymology:
Secretfriendzy
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation: secret-frenzy
Sentence: She wanted her only as a secretfriendzy.
Etymology:
Hyde
Created by: zxvasdf
Pronunciation: hīd'
Sentence: To engage in a hyde is to deny your companion, and further suggests as to the superficiality of the relationship despite outward clues towards the otherwise. Sigh! She's hyding again. I guess I'll eat lunch by myself again, thought Suzy. Hydden relationships cluster in office buildings all over the world. Confessions of a Serial Hyder: A Memoir was ranked at lowest by the NY Times owing to the generally unappealing choice of verbosity.
Etymology: Hyde (of Jekyll and Hyde notoriety, suggesting a complete upheaval of the original personality)
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COMMENTS:
BRILLIANT! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-14: 02:46:00
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Confidont
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: känfədōnt
Sentence: Jill is Judy’s best of friend outside of work. At work she is a confidon’t, barely acknowledging that she knows Judy.
Etymology: confidant (a person with whom one shares a secret) + don’t (contraction of do not)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2011-07-07: 04:36:00
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Confriendential
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kon-frend-den-shuh l
Sentence: Kate and Allie grew up together. They went to college together. They are roommates. The fact that they work as sales reps for competing companies means that their relationship is confriendential at work.
Etymology: confidential (in strict privacy or secrecy) + friend (a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard)
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