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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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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

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Transpurrance

artr

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)

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Scharblitz

Created by: Acostell

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Hysteriotransfer

Created by: tangledupinblue

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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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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.

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Emorebound

Created by: bghicks

Pronunciation: Emo-rebound

Sentence: He annoyed her and she emorebounded all over him.

Etymology: Emo -tional rebound

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Moodswapping

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: mood - swa - ping

Sentence: Terry was an expert at moodswapping. He would get into an argument with his boss and take it out on his wife. After a wonderful day with his wife, he would be nice to the checkout clerk at the store and so on.... He always carried the most recent interaction on to the next person.

Etymology: mood, swapping

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Emosation

Created by: chofu67

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Emotiredirection

Created by: Fenners

Pronunciation: e-moti-redirection

Sentence: I've been a bit emotiredirectional lately

Etymology: emotion redirection

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Poorboire

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: poor/bwire

Sentence: If you can't kick a gift horse in the mouth...at least leave a poorboire they'll never forget!

Etymology: variation of "pourboire" - a gift or gratuity

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COMMENTS:

good one quip! clever... - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:02:00

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Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.

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