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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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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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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.
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!
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.
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
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
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
