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DEFINITION: To recognize and loudly greet a friend only to realize that it is a complete stranger, who now thinks that you are somewhat odd.
Verboticisms
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Astigmate
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: a-STIG-mate
Sentence: Sharna's refusal to wear her glasses resulted in her frequently astigmating astounded strangers. This carried over to her online life where small, blurry profile images compounded the problem. Unlike in real life, some of her online astigmates thought it endearing, albeit odd, and eventually 'friended' her in facebook.
Etymology: astigmia + mate
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COMMENTS:
But I still like randomactofblindness better from my first go round with this definition. - petaj, 2007-09-03: 03:07:00
I often finish up with a number of verboticisms for the definition- and, to play safe I put them in my sentence. I do like "astigmate" though. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-03: 23:31:00
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Embarrassmeet
Created by: trioptimum
Pronunciation: em-BARR-uhs-meet
Sentence: Simon cringed as he recounted to everyone present the details of that morning's embarrassmeet.
Etymology: meet + embarrassment
Nothuithot
Created by: fanoog
Pronunciation: Not who I thought
Sentence: sorry, you are nothuithot.
Etymology: not who i thought
Malute
Created by: kundalinikat
Pronunciation: v. MAL-oot n. MAL-yoo-tay-shun
Sentence: Bob's awkward malutation began the blind date on the wrong note.
Etymology: mal (Latin for 'bad') + salute or salutation
Greepster
Created by: doctathunder
Pronunciation: GREEP-ster
Sentence: I was having a pleasant conversation with my girlfriend until this greepster yelled out to me from across the street insisting she knew me.
Etymology: Greet + Creeper
Howdelusion
Created by: Pseudonym
Pronunciation: how-dee-loo-shun
Sentence: "Since I stopped talking to people, I no longer suffer from howdelusion."
Etymology: howdy + delusion
Salutorture
Created by: elron
Pronunciation: sal-yoo-tor-chur
Sentence: From the back, Sally thought it was her friend, Jude, but quickly realized it wasn't and suffered salutorture.
Etymology: salutation + torture
Hailno
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: heyl-noh
Sentence: Elmer gave a hearty hailno to his best friends girlfriends cousins look-alike.
Etymology: hail - (greet loudly) no - (negative, wrong)
