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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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Joke
Created by: callum4katie
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i love the word joke
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
i love this website! - callum4katie, 2007-07-21: 06:32:00
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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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Transnubstantiation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: trans/snub/stan/tia/shun
Sentence: What a weight off my shoulders to practice transnubstatiation on an ususpecting passerby after being snubbed by another.
Etymology: transubstantiation + snub
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COMMENTS:
I can't help thinking I need a token for the turnstile when I read that word. ;)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:39:00
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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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Emotiopathy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: m-o-t-op-A-thee
Sentence: The emotiopathy between the writers was emotagious.Their moodflings flew thither and fro for hours on end. It was "emocio-a-go-go."
Etymology: Blending of emotion and -pathy (as in telepathy)
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COMMENTS:
good word. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-20: 07:13:00
Good sentence too. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 08:49:00
They need a dose of homeoemotiopathy. - petaj, 2007-07-21: 06:35:00
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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:
Ignoridity
Created by: mirandapearl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "you are full of ignoridity today arent you?"
Etymology:
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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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.