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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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Transmiffed
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: trans-miffed
Sentence: After her poor performance evaluation, Edna transmiffed her distemper to the next person she saw.
Etymology: transmit(ted): to cause, spread or pass on as in a disease or infection + miffed: petulant bad-tempered mood; huffed -- (distemper-an infectious, viral disease affecting dogs; deranged)
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COMMENTS:
Transmiffologic response! - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:23:00
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Emotiredirection
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: e-moti-redirection
Sentence: I've been a bit emotiredirectional lately
Etymology: emotion redirection
Shate
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: sh - ate
Sentence: Sorry I didn't mean it. I'm shating because my bloody cat.
Etymology: share + hate
Emotedump
Created by: Carole
Pronunciation: ee motey dump
Sentence: Cecil was completely floored by the vehemence of Conny's latest emotedump.
Etymology: emote/ emotion. dump/ drop, let go of load.
Emoticonduit
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ee-moat-ee-kon-due-it
Sentence: As she angrily replied to his email with colon, left bracket..she knew she shouldn't be mad at him...but she'd just got off the phone with her mother... she was a classic emoticonduit
Etymology: emotion, conduit
Transflurgle
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: trans-fler-gull
Sentence: The girl transflurgled to her boyfriend.
Etymology: Vietmanese
Transmoshun
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: trans-moe-shun
Sentence: Pete received the full impact of Kelly's day through transmoshun.
Etymology: transmit + emotion + shun
Emofection
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: e-mo-fek-shon
Sentence: After being dumped by a post-it this morning, Kate has emofected everyone around with her foul mood.
Etymology: I would prefer emotional Infection, or a latin emopatheogenic maybe, but emofection was more naturally understandable.
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COMMENTS:
emoflection would have been good too -- emotion + deflect - petaj, 2007-01-05: 20:19:00
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Ferventing
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: fur-vent-ing
Sentence: ferventing is just another word for displacing, the psychological defense mechanism...
Etymology: fervent+forwarding, as in email.
Moodiflect
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: moo dee fleckt
Sentence: Karen was a killer moodiflect, you could bet if she'd been to visit her mom in prison, she'd be very strange that day.
Etymology: from mood and deflect
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COMMENTS:
I wonder what she was like when she didn't go to prison? - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:09:00
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Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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