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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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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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Jabberstraction

Created by: Mobelia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: They chatted briefly in front of their colleagues about the temperature of the coffee, but it was mere jabberstraction from the rising heat between them.

Etymology: From: Jabber meaning to chat Distraction meaning to confuse and divert attention

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COMMENTS:

Good! I wonder what jabberwocky thinks about this? - wordmeister, 2007-02-16: 00:18:00

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Nofase

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: no fase

Sentence: We will be together but now we are in a nofase.

Etymology: no and fase.

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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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Cryptolust

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: krip/toe/lust

Sentence: Their cryptolust comments raised suspicions among the secretaries, leading to rumours that the two were definitely "involved".

Etymology: cryptic + lust

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Adorababble

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ədôrəbabəl

Sentence: John and Jill (she apparently dumped Jack) are just the cutest couple. They are slightly embarrassed to talk about their intimacy so they speak in adorababble sounding ever so much like a couple of toddlers.

Etymology: adorable (inspiring great affection) + babble (talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way)

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Bunnybanter

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: bun-nee-ban-tur

Sentence: Jill and Jack's bunnybanter was thinly veiled flirtation.

Etymology: bunny - (i.e. cute) + banter (i.e. talk)

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

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Romanshh

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: row-man-shh

Sentence: Bill and Barbara fooled no one after emerging flushed from the photocopying room, despite their secretive romanshh language.

Etymology: romance (a romantic affair) + shh! (request to be silent)

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Obfuscationshipspeak

bailandi

Created by: bailandi

Pronunciation:

Sentence: "Oh man, did you hear Tom and Mary at the office yesterday, I thought they were talking about work but when I listened closely, it was more obfuscationshipspeak than anything else!"

Etymology: Using the word Obfuscate, meaning to make unclear and relationship, to indicate it's between two people. adding "speak" to indicate a new type of language comes from Orwell's 1984.

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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"