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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.
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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Repsychle
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: ree-sigh-kl
Sentence: Frank felt sure Jodie was repsychling her cat's negativity....
Etymology: recycle + psyche = repsychle
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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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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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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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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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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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.