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DEFINITION: To share greetings, hugs, and kisses with old friends and familiar faces, while you desperately try to remember their names.
Verboticisms
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Communamnesia
Created by: solsticesword
Pronunciation: commun-amnesia
Sentence: The man with an otherwise incredible memory suffered from communamnesia around his friends.
Etymology: commun from community and amnesia from amnesia
Greek
Created by: Fleury
Pronunciation:
Sentence: We greeked each other, enthusiastically yet apprehensively.
Etymology: greet + eek!
Forgautonym
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: For-got-o-nim
Sentence: As I walked in to my high school reunion, I realized that I would experience forgautonym many times this night.
Etymology: Forg - Forgot Autonym - a person's own name
Mismonikiss
Created by: Arcysparky
Pronunciation: Mis-mon-EE-kis
Sentence: "Give me a hug, it's been such a long time... pretty lady" John said as he mismonikissed his high school girlfriend.
Etymology: Mis- badly Moniker - name Kiss - (err... kiss)
Whosithugs
Created by: ennia
Pronunciation: As it sounds
Sentence: I gave whosithugs to my distant cousins, while asking how old they were.
Etymology: Who is it? and Hug.
Nomenesia
Created by: doogman
Pronunciation: No-Men-Ease-ee-ah
Sentence: As she hugged me and kissed my cheek, I was struck by a wave of nomenesia.
Etymology: From the Latin "nomen" (name) and amenesia (to forget)
Shmoozemporize
Created by: squirrelian
Pronunciation: shmoozemporize
Sentence: He shmoozemporized until he could make a graceful exit.
Etymology: "Shmooze" plus "temporize" (temporize as in stall for time).
Namenesia
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: nam-nee-see-ya
Sentence: When namenesia struck, Bertie could hardly remember his own name, never mind anyone else's
Etymology: Name + amnesia
Remembefriendfacimatate
Created by: mrguy753
Pronunciation:
Sentence: John just called everyone "dude" and "buddy" as he tried to remembefriendfacimatate.
Etymology:
Comments:
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-11: 12:34:00
Babel - I love hospiwhothehellity
babel - 2006-12-11: 13:45:00
familanesia is a great one stevenson
wordmeister - 2006-12-11: 14:01:00
Personally, I find embarassing when I get familanesia or hospiwhothehellity... Why do you guys like it?
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-11: 15:31:00
I agree - both are great words but Babel - I think you could expand it to hospiwhothellareyouity
babel - 2006-12-11: 15:33:00
hospiwhothehellareyoulookingatmelikeimsupposedtoknowyouity
babel - 2006-12-11: 15:34:00
oh well, i guess i found the max single word length haha
wordmeister - 2006-12-11: 15:51:00
Yes, I can only guess how your word ends...
CaptPoco - 2006-12-18: 10:19:00
Memorafeeblia is so fun to say!