Vote for the best verboticism.
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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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
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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Irecognize
Created by: Lurky2000
Pronunciation: Ih-recognize
Sentence: omg, I like totally irecognized you
Etymology:
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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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
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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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)
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.)
