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'Hi Sexy! Oops... Sorry, I thought you were someone else.'

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.

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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:

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Nothuithot

Created by: fanoog

Pronunciation: Not who I thought

Sentence: sorry, you are nothuithot.

Etymology: not who i thought

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Reactcident

joelb

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

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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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Verbolepticamnesiac

Created by: kasaj

Pronunciation:

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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

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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

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Embarrassmeet

trioptimum

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

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Alohachoo

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: aloe/a/chew

Sentence: Alohachoo!! Excuse me, I was just sneezing.

Etymology: aloha + achoo

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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.

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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

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Helloribble

movingtomontana

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

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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)

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Astigmate

petaj

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:

petaj 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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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!

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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.)

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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.

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Embarused

Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation:

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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

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Irecognize

Created by: Lurky2000

Pronunciation: Ih-recognize

Sentence: omg, I like totally irecognized you

Etymology:

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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.

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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

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Whatsugh

skepsis

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

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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

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Howdelusion

Pseudonym

Created by: Pseudonym

Pronunciation: how-dee-loo-shun

Sentence: "Since I stopped talking to people, I no longer suffer from howdelusion."

Etymology: howdy + delusion

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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)

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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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Good blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-03: 23:32:00

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Whoopsicall

MrDave2176

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.

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Wreckognition

Created by: caffreyc

Pronunciation: wreck-og-ni-tion

Sentence: My wreckognition ability seems to be growing as I get older

Etymology: wreck, recognition

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