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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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Pissdemeanor
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pistdimēnər
Sentence: She really didn\\\'t like her job at the Mall with its annoying, self-centered customers. She would occasionally commit a pissdemeanor by re-directing her frustration at her co-workers or when she would get home and yell at the cat.
Etymology: pissed (very annoyed; angry) + misdemeanor (a minor wrongdoing) + demeanor (outward behavior or bearing, attitude)
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
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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Collectiveemotions
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: Col-ec-tive-E-mot-ions
Sentence: Due to her collective emotions, any people that rub her the wrong way leave a negative feeling that propegates.
Etymology:
Emorebound
Created by: bghicks
Pronunciation: Emo-rebound
Sentence: He annoyed her and she emorebounded all over him.
Etymology: Emo -tional rebound
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."
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Psychoport
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: sahy/kuh/port
Sentence: My inability to deal with the immediate situation causes me to psychoport my feelings and emotions to the next person I run into.
Etymology: psychological + transport
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COMMENTS:
That sounds a lot like "psycho-sport". Is that a game you play regularily? - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:06:00
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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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