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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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Whoopsicall
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: WOOP-si-call
Sentence: When Gary made a whoopsicall to a woman he thought was Margret he felt the cold chill of embarrassment creeping down his neck.
Etymology: Whoops (a commmon exclaimation when making an error) with call (a shout out to my peeps) mixed with Popsicle because you feel that cold feeling of making an error.
Howdoyoudoh
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: how-do-yoo-d'oh!
Sentence: i walked into the room and committed one of the loudest howdoyoudoh's that anyone had ever witnessed.
Etymology: how do you do, d'oh
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COMMENTS:
LOL - Lurky2000, 2007-09-03: 01:46:00
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Yoohoowho
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: u/who/who
Sentence: She greeted, who she thought was Jenny, with a loud yoo-hoo. It quickly turned into a yoohoowho when she realized it was a complete stranger.
Etymology: yoo-hoo + who
Irecognize
Created by: Lurky2000
Pronunciation: Ih-recognize
Sentence: omg, I like totally irecognized you
Etymology:
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
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)
Wreckognition
Created by: caffreyc
Pronunciation: wreck-og-ni-tion
Sentence: My wreckognition ability seems to be growing as I get older
Etymology: wreck, recognition
Humilimeet
Created by: earljw
Pronunciation: hue-MIL-i-meet
Sentence: I was heading to the bathroom when this goth chick I have never met decided to humilimeet me.
Etymology: humiliate + meet
Mishidentify
Created by: h4ste
Pronunciation: miss-hi-dentify
Sentence: He looks exactly like you! I can't believe i completely mishidentified someone else!
Etymology: mis (wrongly)+ hi (a greeting) + identity
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COMMENTS:
Good blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-03: 23:32:00
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Strangehoot
Created by: reguser
Pronunciation: strangehoot
Sentence: I was walking down the road, when this guy suddenly strangehooted at me from no where.
Etymology: strange = unknown, weird, unfamiliar hoot = call
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
Oopsalute
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: oops-suh-loot
Sentence: After a few drinks she oopsaluted everyone at the party, even though she felt a bit ashamed about it she realised the next that it was a really great way to meet men.
Etymology: oops (as in expressing dismay) + salute (as in greeting or salutation)
Greetgaffe
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: GREET-gaff
Sentence: You should have seen the look on Bob's chumystified face, when he realized that the person whom he had greeted so loudly was a complete stranger. This greetgaffe was just the latest in his long list of cobberclangers. Only later on, when he learned that it was his greatest chumistake yet, did he decide that it was time to start compiling a corrifriendum.
Etymology: Greet: to welcome & gaffe: awkward social error, a faux pas.
Helloribble
Created by: movingtomontana
Pronunciation: Hell - orr - ibble
Sentence: I thought I saw you in the supermarket this morning, I helloribbled some bird. She ran off down the isle and called security.
Etymology: Hello meets Horrible
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
Helloops
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: hell + oops
Sentence: Man, that guy looked EXACTLY LIKE Adolf Hitler - what a complete helloops!
Etymology: hello + oops. (Note: I created this word for this definition the first time around. I liked it too much not to use it again.)
Greeteek
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: greet' - eek
Sentence: Her humiliating greeteek had scarcely passed her lips when she realized it was a Preacher whose ass she was grabbing as she squealed; "You were great last night!"
Etymology: greeting/eek!
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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Nothuithot
Created by: fanoog
Pronunciation: Not who I thought
Sentence: sorry, you are nothuithot.
Etymology: not who i thought
Helloaaah
Created by: sevenjades
Pronunciation: Hello - aaahh
Sentence: Oh, god, I just did a complete helloaaaah to that wierd guy!
Etymology: Combination of "Hello" and "aaaahh", as in the sound one makes when one frantically tries to place who a person is and what to say to cover the gaff.
Alohachoo
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: aloe/a/chew
Sentence: Alohachoo!! Excuse me, I was just sneezing.
Etymology: aloha + achoo
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
Wafflecrapper
Created by: kakashi13
Pronunciation: Wa fl cra per
Sentence: She's no wafflecrapper but id do her anyway.
Etymology: A person so hot you wouldent care if they came up and tuke a crap on your waffle.
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
Whatsugh
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation: what's - ugg
Sentence: I pulled an whatsugh back there because that guy looked just like Rainbow-Jeremy.
Etymology: whats up and ugh
Recoget
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Sorry I recogot you. I thought you were my brother but now I see you must be someone else.
Etymology:
Reactcident
Created by: joelb
Pronunciation: re-AKT-sid-ent
Sentence: I pretended that my friend was actually somewhere behind this weirdo who my reactcident seemed to have excited.
Etymology: react + accident
