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'But I only see her once a year. And I do remember her hair. And her lips...'

DEFINITION: To share greetings, hugs, and kisses with old friends and familiar faces, while you desperately try to remember their names.

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Whosithugs

ennia

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.

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Nameflop

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: name-flop

Sentence: When MaryAnne arrived at the Christmas party, she nameflopped all of her husband's cousins. Then she had a few drinks and started nameflipflopping...

Etymology: Like name dropping, only not as smooth

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Namefight

Created by: kevinrio

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Namezheimer

Created by: BrakX

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Whusyonaming

Created by: antonhere

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Delayniate

Created by: xcruser88x

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Sentence: After delayniating for thirty seconds, Michael confidently greeted Aunt Betsy with a hearty "Hello, Ruth!"

Etymology: Delay + Delineate

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Pretenderness

Created by: polarpanda

Pronunciation: pre-ten-der-ness (not PREE-ten-der-ness)

Sentence: Hey, honey, tell me your cousin Patrice's husband's name again-- he's headed over here, and I don't want all that awkward pretenderness when he leans in for a hug.

Etymology: pretend + tenderness

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Gremembrain

Created by: Hjason

Pronunciation: gre-mem-brain

Sentence: Although I have no idea who you are, I am really enjoying tring to gremembraining while I hug you.

Etymology: greet-remember-brain

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Famnesia

IHeartKiwiTarts

Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts

Pronunciation: " fam-neej-ah"

Sentence: the elderly are not the only ones to suffer from bouts of famnesia at reunions.

Etymology: Originating from my brain

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Graspaw

Created by: ronarscorruption

Pronunciation: grass-paw

Sentence: I saw her standing there, and shook her hand while I graspawed

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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!