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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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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)
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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Viberus
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: vibe-russ
Sentence: it started with Allan, who gave it to sue. She passed it on to Derek, who, in turn, gave it to the other Derek. Yep...there was a pretty sour Viberus spreading through the office today.
Etymology: vibe, virus
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COMMENTS:
Caustic vibrosis? - petaj, 2007-07-20: 05:18:00
Wow - a double-derek office. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 09:01:00
One of the Dereks needs a nickname, like "Trey". - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:45:00
he already has one...he's 'the other Derek' - rikboyee, 2007-07-20: 19:05:00
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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.)
Regurgimitation
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: re-gurge-im-it-ay-shun
Sentence:
Etymology: regurgitation + imitation
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
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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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.