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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.
Verboticisms
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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.
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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Emopoop
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: ee-moh-poop
Sentence: Michael always had some difficulty sharing his feelings. But sooner or later, they would well up inside and he would just let it all out in one giant emopoop. It was usually a quite messy -- you wouldn't want to be trapped in the same room with him when it was happening -- but in the end, he always felt much better.
Etymology: emote + poop
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COMMENTS:
emoglopic! - Nosila, 2009-08-07: 22:25:00
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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)
Hysteriotransfer
Created by: tangledupinblue
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After being fired, he hysteriotransferred to the people around him for the rest of the day; he even told the barista to "Hurry it up--oh, wait, you can't do that, can you, you stoned slacker? You're fired. I don't need that watery crap you call coffee anyway."
Etymology:
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)
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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Transpurrance
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trans-pur-uhns
Sentence: Cindy is very close to her cat. Unfortunately Mr. Furball often sets her mood for the day. If he treats her poorly everybody in the office will do their best to stay clear. The emotional transpurrance can be deadly.
Etymology: tansferance (the shift of emotions, especially those experienced in childhood, from one person or object to another, especially the transfer of feelings about a parent to an analyst) + purr (to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does)
Emollector
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "ee-moe-leck-tour"
Sentence: I am a totally emollector
Etymology: emotion + collector emollector yay!
Transmoshun
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: trans-moe-shun
Sentence: Pete received the full impact of Kelly's day through transmoshun.
Etymology: transmit + emotion + shun
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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