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DEFINITION: To collect all the emotional energy you receive from one person, and then share it with the very next person you meet.
Verboticisms
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Funkdump
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: funk-dump
Sentence: He dismissed his wife's unrelenting sarcasm and judgemental comments as just a funkdump. Afterall, they had just come from his mother's house.
Etymology: "funk" as in the emotional baggage and "dump" as to unload it onto someone else (also derived from personal mom-in-law experience)
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COMMENTS:
Nice word! At first glance I thought it was fuppeduck. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 09:14:00
A clever buffalo wing place might get some mileage out of a spicy serving of fuppeduck. - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:42:00
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Defercate
Created by: scrawlspacer
Pronunciation: DEH fur kayt
Sentence: I really need to quit my job. My boss is so bitchy I wind up defercating on my boyfriend.* You have to watch out for the silent types. Sometimes they do nothing but defercate.* I wish I weren't the first person Mary sees every day when she comes in. Why can't she find someone else to listen to her defercate?
Etymology: defer + defecate (in the figurative sense, as in "to dump" (intr.) or "to dump something [on someone]" (tr.)
Empugnate
Created by: dzhessi
Pronunciation: emPUGnayt
Sentence: Laura empugnates her friends after she goes to one of her special meetings.
Etymology: en (in) + pug (
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COMMENTS:
Cool - Nolina, 2007-07-22: 16:51:00
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Remocate
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ree-MOH-cayt
Sentence: As Alex's girlfriend slammed the door in his face, he automatically assumed she was remocating from a phone call just before.
Etymology: relocate + emotion
Transfervent
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Tranz-furr-vent
Sentence: I was pretty sure she was feeling transfervent when she replied my "hello" with "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I PAID MY TAXES!"
Etymology: Transfer (to move from one thing to another) + fervent (having emotion or passion)
Compatribute
Created by: irminem
Pronunciation: com-pa-tri-bute
Sentence: People who are not independent thinkers, always compatribute with thise they encounter on a daily basis.
Etymology: "comp" from "compile"; "pa" from "passion" and "tribute" from "distribute"
Diarrhetoric
Created by: kabloozie
Pronunciation: die-a-re-tor-ick
Sentence: Since her divorce, I've been avoiding her - I'm so sick of her diarrhetoric.
Etymology: diarrhea + rhetoric
Dumpchump
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dump-chump
Sentence: As soon as he heard that her dog mauled her big toe, he ran for the hills knowing full well he'd be dumpchumped.
Etymology: dump (to dispose of something) + chump (sucker, sitting duck)
Comments:
Kyoti - 2007-07-20: 10:50:00
Ozzie's probably an emociologist on the side, and slightly emotipathic as a result. Must... transfer... moodflings.
Kyoti - 2007-07-20: 10:51:00
Sighhh... not again.