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DEFINITION: v. To collect all the emotional energy you receive from one person, and then share it with the very next person you meet. n. Emotional transference.
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Premoject
Created by: sleep
Pronunciation: pree-moe-ject
Sentence: She premojected her emotional baggage on me like last week's cole slaw.
Etymology: project + emo
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COMMENTS:
Last week's cole slaw? Sounds like premojectile vomiting... Scarey girl! - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:12:00
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Nuclcarry
Created by: sbilecen
Pronunciation: nucl (from nuclear) carry is carry
Sentence: She is a nuclcarry
Etymology:
Reflexaffect
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: /RFLKSFKT/
Sentence: Didn't your mum say that line to you five minutes ago? stop reflexaffecting me!
Etymology: Reflexaffect: reflex from the E reflect meaning show an image, and affect from the E affected, meaning have an effect on
Transferlament
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: trans-FER-leh-ment
Sentence: Whenever Sally was hit with negative emotions from her interactions with her mother, which was a very frequent occurrence, she would transferlament, laying all her tears and woes on her boyfriend Frankie.
Etymology: Bland of 'transfer' (to shift something or someone from one place to another) and 'lament' (to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret)
Transemototherapy
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The kick he received playing football really hurt his shin. Lying in bed later, his wife was less than thrilled as she felt a sharp pain and realised his foot had carried out transemototherapy
Etymology:
Emotiredirection
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: e-moti-redirection
Sentence: I've been a bit emotiredirectional lately
Etymology: emotion redirection
Hissplacement
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hiss playse ment
Sentence: When Tiger vocalized his indifference, jealousy and displeasure towards Sybil, it was a catastrophe. She was catatonic briefly before projecting her hissplacement categorically towards her boyfriend,Tom. Afterwhich, Tom was feline purrly...
Etymology: Hiss (the fricative, sibilant noise cats make to express disapproval, contempt ot displeasure) & Displacement (the psychological transference of feelings from one person to another; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one)
Emojettison
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: E-mo-JET-iss-on
Sentence: It's a great relief to emojettison after an hour with my neurotic friend.
Etymology: emotion (feeling) + jettison (unload)
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COMMENTS:
Clever! I like it. - Maureen, 2007-01-02: 18:14:00
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Superemokinesis
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: soo-per-ee-mo-ki-nee-sis
Sentence: Using the power of superkinesis, she transfered the weight of the world to her best friend.
Etymology: From "kinesis" meaning movement, "emo" as the emotions are being transferred, and "super" is perhaps ironic, but could be from "superficial" as such an act hardly involves deep thought. Also a play on Freud's "superego".
Asscakes
Created by: delayette
Pronunciation: ass-kayke
Sentence: Johnny got mad at his girlfriend and decided to asscake me with his problems
Etymology: asscake-to dump emotional sappy crap onto another.
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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