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'It's called team work!'

DEFINITION: n. A specially coded language, which newly dating couples use to describe their relationship when they don't want other people to realize that they have "the hots" for each other.v. To talk about sex in a code words.

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Romanticode

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: roh-MAN-te-code

Sentence: Though the 'secret' lingo was quite discernible to folks around them, Hal and Harriet believed their sweet talking romanticode was fooling everyone.

Etymology: Blend of romantic and code

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Fornicryptic

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: for-ni-crip-tic

Sentence: Fred and Ethel's fornicryptic explanation of their impromptu mailroom meeting fooled no one, especially after we saw the huge love bite on Ethel's neck. She blushed and said that a package fell off the shelf and darn near killed her. Good thing Fred was there to give her mouth to mouth recusitation.

Etymology: fornicate: unmarried sex + cryptic: having a hidden meaning; put into a secret language or code

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COMMENTS:

It was an unforntunate accident... - Nosila, 2009-09-08: 16:42:00

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Codate

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: ko-deit

Sentence: They said they were just a team, but everybody could sense Dave and Ann was codating; the way they snickered when they talked, how they appeared at work at the same time every day and of course the strange sounds from the locked copying-room.

Etymology: code + dating/ co-working

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Nudgenudge

Created by: Buzzardbilly

Pronunciation: ˈnəjˈnəj

Sentence: You have to know they weren't really talking about stapling documents in such detail; they were nudgenudging with double entendres. Really, if they nudgenudge anymore, I might just have to tell them we all know they're dating because every conversation they have is filled with nudgenudges.

Etymology: From the infamous Monty Python "Nudge Nudge" sketch about making everything be sexual innuendo and is often referred to as "wink wink, nudge nudge."

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Say no more, know what you mean, a wink's as good as a nod to a blind horse, nuff said, wink, wink, nod, nod! - Nosila, 2009-09-08: 01:21:00

metrohumanx "Ello SQUIRE! Your wife's a goer....know what i mean? - metrohumanx, 2009-09-11: 00:19:00

Yes, I do... - Nosila, 2009-09-11: 01:09:00

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Semaphamore

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: sema/fa/mor/eh

Sentence: Semaphamore is the language of luv

Etymology: semaphore + amore

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COMMENTS:

sounds great with an Italian accent - porsche, 2007-02-13: 09:05:00

petaj You're right, say it out loud. - petaj, 2007-02-14: 02:44:00

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Lovercover

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: luv-er-cuv-er

Sentence: in order to organise where they were going to hook up after the work function they needed to apply some lovercover

Etymology: from the italian 'loverco' and the french 'ver'...both of which mean 'to attempt to build a sand castle with dry sand'... so clearly this word is inappropriate

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COMMENTS:

I LOVE the etymology! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-13: 19:09:00

super etymology, and bonus for rhyming!! - Alchemist, 2007-02-13: 19:13:00

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Datish

Created by: toralora

Pronunciation: dait/ish

Sentence: Allthough they spoke Datish at the office, we all understood what was going on.

Etymology: date/dating + -ish (like in Swedish).

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Flurtive

Created by: babel

Pronunciation: flur-tiv

Sentence: Anna knew John only wore his pink glasses when he was feeling particularly flurtive

Etymology: flirt+furtive

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Sneakitius

wordnerd

Created by: wordnerd

Pronunciation: snee-ki-tee-us

Sentence: Those two are suffering from sneakitius!

Etymology:

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Sexplanation

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sek-spluh-ney-shuhn

Sentence: When the Marketing Director and the Sales Director were caught in the supply closet together they had to come up with a quick sexplanation. Nobody really believed that they were looking for white-board markers.

Etymology: sex (coitus) + explanation (a mutual declaration of the meaning of words spoken, actions, motives, etc)

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Comments:

petaj petaj - 2007-02-13: 05:41:00

Alchemist - 2007-02-13: 07:34:00
Rhyming verboticisms should get Bonus points! great etymology!

Alchemist - 2007-02-13: 07:38:00
oops. that comment was for rikboyee's word "lovercover"