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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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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
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)
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.
Wreckognition
Created by: caffreyc
Pronunciation: wreck-og-ni-tion
Sentence: My wreckognition ability seems to be growing as I get older
Etymology: wreck, recognition
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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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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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
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
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.
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: