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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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Regurgimitation
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: re-gurge-im-it-ay-shun
Sentence:
Etymology: regurgitation + imitation
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.)
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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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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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.
Emopushenta
Created by: dancerxoxox
Pronunciation: emo/push/enta
Sentence: The girls told Helen to go away, making Helen emopushenter her boyfriend away.
Etymology: emotional + pushing + enter = EMOPUSHENTA
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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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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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.