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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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Flitch
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: flitch
Sentence: Don't flitch your mom's hostility on me!
Etymology: from "flip" (or maybe "flick"?) and "bitch" (or maybe "pitch"?). Also can be used to describe the flicking, dismissive hand gesture made when trasferring negative energy to others.
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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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"
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
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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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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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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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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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.