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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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Associamittal

Created by: ekath

Pronunciation: ah-sew-see-ah-mitt-al

Sentence: The boss doesn't know they're associamittal. If he finds out, they'll be in... separate doghouses.

Etymology: from associates + committal

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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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Flinguistics

Created by: alphabetapolothology

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Their cover was blown after being caught making out in the elevator, but they still insisted on using flinguistics in front of the boss.

Etymology: fling & linguistics

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Infatuspeak

dancemonkey

Created by: dancemonkey

Pronunciation: In-FAT-Chew-Speak

Sentence: Katie and Arnold's infatuspeak got annoying, especially since the entire office knew what they'd done in the break room.

Etymology: From the noun infatuation and the verb to speak. Like you needed that explanation.

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Amoflage

Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: amo-fla:j

Sentence: Sara and Majid were talking in the corner during the party it was a kind of amoflage i can guess.

Etymology: camouflage= a method of hiding amour= related to love affair

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COMMENTS:

good one - Nosila, 2011-02-09: 22:32:00

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Sinnuendo

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: sinyoōendō

Sentence: They had only been dating for a couple of days but they already have developed an entire vocabulary of sinnuendo. They can get each other charged up with the most common of phrases. It’s gotten to the point that that many in the office are uncomfortable if they speak to each other at all.

Etymology: sin (an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law) + innuendo (an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one)

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COMMENTS:

in you end? Oh! great word - galwaywegian, 2011-02-09: 07:31:00

artr Beats youth in Asia... - artr, 2011-02-10: 12:09:00

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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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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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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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Speechpassology

Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: spEEch-pass-ol-ogy

Sentence: David and Jill made passes in the speech pathology lab, using speechpassology.

Etymology: speech pathology/pass

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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"