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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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Nothuithot
Created by: fanoog
Pronunciation: Not who I thought
Sentence: sorry, you are nothuithot.
Etymology: not who i thought
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!
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)
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.
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
Wreckognition
Created by: caffreyc
Pronunciation: wreck-og-ni-tion
Sentence: My wreckognition ability seems to be growing as I get older
Etymology: wreck, recognition
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
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.)
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
