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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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Emopeetoopee
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ee-mo-p-2-p
Sentence: Harold was happy being bald. Honest he was. But after he caught up with shiny-pated Bob who was emotionally disturbed by his own baldness, Harold couldn't help but emopeetoopee.
Etymology: emotion + p2p (peer to peer file sharing)
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COMMENTS:
Bob could buy a toopee for his bald head. - Stevenson0, 2007-07-20: 07:01:00
Toopee, or not toopee? - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:47:00
It was the toopee bit that inspired the sentence about baldness.
An alternative definition might be peer to peer smile sharing, if it's positive emotional energy. - petaj, 2007-07-21: 06:37:00
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Karmadiate
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Kahr-may-dee-ate
Sentence: Billy knocked on the door, and when Jennifer opened it, she looked right at him and said, "I suppose you think this fixes everything!", then ran off and locked herself into the bathroom for an hour. While he waited impatiently on the couch, her Saint Bernard, "Mr. Tidwell", began to take a more than friendly interest in nuzzling Billy's sensitive areas. Before he caught himself, Billy glanced at Mr. Tidwell and karmadiated involuntarily, "I suppose you think this fixes everything".
Etymology: Karma + radiate
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COMMENTS:
Hey Kyoti - keep going with your story - it's good but you still haven't used your word in a sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-20: 11:09:00
I always forget that part. I'm too busy ducking from my boxlexia. This place is full of trap doors, you know? - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 11:14:00
much better - funny story - maybe you should have named the dog Monica - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-20: 11:20:00
Mr. Tidwell did my verbotomy - snuffleupaguest. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 13:27:00
Well, see... Tidwell is a verbotomy too. Sobbbbb.... - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:56:00
Or was that an anagram? Hmmm.... - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:57:00
A subliminal mnemonic device? I dunno. - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:58:00
And LOL @ snuffleupaguest. :)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:58:00
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Repsychle
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: ree-sigh-kl
Sentence: Frank felt sure Jodie was repsychling her cat's negativity....
Etymology: recycle + psyche = repsychle
Transferrangst
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: trans fur ang ssst
Sentence: She blamed all the transferrangst on the neverbemanager at moonbucks who always served her her coffee with a face like a bulldogs arse. No amount of sugar could sweeten that experience, she would explain to the second person she met at the office every morning.
Etymology: transferrence angst
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COMMENTS:
why do they look so unhappy? too much caffeine? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-20: 16:25:00
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Dumpathy
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: dum-pah-thee
Sentence: After her cat, Fidon't, rejected her plea for companionship, she went to work and immediately began to dumpathy on her boss, which ultimately landed her a nice, nonsocial position in the mail room.
Etymology: dump, empathy
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COMMENTS:
was that position in the paper recycling dump bin? - petaj, 2007-07-20: 05:16:00
Pity she didn't study harder. She could be a dumpatologist by now. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-20: 07:15:00
Either way, she'd be down in the dumps. - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:43:00
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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
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:
I keep getting the feeling that I like it. I think I'm being psychoported! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-07-20: 19:03:00
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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.)
Arkaoma
Created by: Nolina
Pronunciation: Anybody-Read-Karakther-Arkaoma-open-to-tell-hao-nice-you-are
Sentence: Arkaoma is a word than tell you ho nica you are. Eks. - Your Arkaoma is 100% - Wow... Yor Arkaoma is like!!
Etymology:
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.