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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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Graspaw
Created by: ronarscorruption
Pronunciation: grass-paw
Sentence: I saw her standing there, and shook her hand while I graspawed
Etymology:
Tonguetipitis
Created by: POKETNRJSH
Pronunciation: tongue-tip-itis
Sentence: I know her face, but I have a case of tonguetipitis.
Etymology:
Distrame
Created by: Dormin87
Pronunciation: diss-tray-m
Sentence: Greg couldn't remember the name of his brother-in-law, so he used the old distrame technique.
Etymology: A combination of distract and name.
Hugaroundabush
Created by: modemjunkie
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I couldn't remember her name so I hugaroundabushed until it came to me.
Etymology:
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
Relationalize
Created by: mytimeonearth
Pronunciation:
Sentence: It's very common to relationalize at family reunions.
Etymology:
Namenesia
Created by: chale
Pronunciation: nam-nee-see-ya
Sentence: When namenesia struck, Bertie could hardly remember his own name, never mind anyone else's
Etymology: Name + amnesia
Forgetimate
Created by: maxronez
Pronunciation: fur-GET-im-ayt
Sentence: Oops, I was caught forgetimating... uh... whats-her-name.
Etymology: forget + mate

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!