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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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Dejawho

Created by: dkrider

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Etymology: Sounds like "deja vu"

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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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Tonguetipitis

Created by: POKETNRJSH

Pronunciation: tongue-tip-itis

Sentence: I know her face, but I have a case of tonguetipitis.

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Anonymifection

Created by: boywondernyc

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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.

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Hugaroundabush

Created by: modemjunkie

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Sentence: I couldn't remember her name so I hugaroundabushed until it came to me.

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Communamnesia

solsticesword

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

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Relationalize

Created by: mytimeonearth

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Sentence: It's very common to relationalize at family reunions.

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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

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Forgetimate

Created by: maxronez

Pronunciation: fur-GET-im-ayt

Sentence: Oops, I was caught forgetimating... uh... whats-her-name.

Etymology: forget + mate

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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!