Vote for the best verboticism.
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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Karmadiate
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Kahr-may-dee-ate
Sentence: Billy knocked on the door, and when Jennifer opened it, she looked right at him and said, "I suppose you think this fixes everything!", then ran off and locked herself into the bathroom for an hour. While he waited impatiently on the couch, her Saint Bernard, "Mr. Tidwell", began to take a more than friendly interest in nuzzling Billy's sensitive areas. Before he caught himself, Billy glanced at Mr. Tidwell and karmadiated involuntarily, "I suppose you think this fixes everything".
Etymology: Karma + radiate
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COMMENTS:
Hey Kyoti - keep going with your story - it's good but you still haven't used your word in a sentence - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-20: 11:09:00
I always forget that part. I'm too busy ducking from my boxlexia. This place is full of trap doors, you know? - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 11:14:00
much better - funny story - maybe you should have named the dog Monica - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-20: 11:20:00
Mr. Tidwell did my verbotomy - snuffleupaguest. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-20: 13:27:00
Well, see... Tidwell is a verbotomy too. Sobbbbb.... - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:56:00
Or was that an anagram? Hmmm.... - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:57:00
A subliminal mnemonic device? I dunno. - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:58:00
And LOL @ snuffleupaguest. :)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 14:58:00
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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"
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.