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DEFINITION: n. A person who is so heels-over-head obsessed with someone, that they trip over their own tongue every time they meet them. v. To be so infatuated that you trip over your tongue.
Verboticisms
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Stardumbstruck
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: star dum struk
Sentence: She gazed at him, stardumbstruck, her heart pounding like a cornered rodent.
Etymology: stardom, dumbstruck
Enuncibate
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: E-nun-see-bate
Sentence: Sue was so enamoured with the new guy at work that when he approached her and asked her when her shift was over, she enuncibated "sex" instead of "six".
Etymology: enunciate, masturbate
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COMMENTS:
this is one of my favorite words ever...too funny! - alphabetapolothology, 2007-02-13: 14:16:00
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Burblegum
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ber/bl/gum
Sentence: She developed an acute case of burblegum every time the office stud walked by. Her gums were flapping but only inarticulate sounds were escaping.
Etymology: bubble gum + burble
Hornytonque
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: horny tonque
Sentence: I want to speak to you but i can´t. When i see you i have a hornytonque
Etymology: horny as in hot and tonque as in the mouth.
Splutteration
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: splut-ter-ay-shun
Sentence: Many people are affected by splutteration; the inability to form correct, coherent sentences when in the presence of a crush.
Etymology: splutter (to stumble over one's words) plus adoration (love)
Tongueled
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: tung-guld
Sentence: Shirley was so smitten with Herbie that she would get absolutely tongueled and become incapable of rational discourse whenever she was around him.
Etymology: blend of the words tongue and tangled
Concrushed
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: con-CRUSH-d
Sentence: Lulu fell in lust at first sight and since then had shown the embarrassing effects of being concrushed.
Etymology: concussed (having suffered an injury to the brain) + crush (distort, destroy AND an intense infatuation)
Cardiolinguofuse
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"kärd-E-O-'li[ng]-gw&-"fyüz/
Sentence: Normally, he was a smooth talker, but around Sam, he would almost always cardiolingofuse into an inarticulate lump of blushes and giggles.
Etymology: Cardio- (heart) + linguo- (tongue) + -fuse (become indistinguishable, as in confuse)
Adorabull
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ah doe rah bull
Sentence: he was so adorable, he reduced her to stuttering adorabull.
Etymology: adorable bull
Hypnohush
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: hip/no/hush
Sentence: Hypnohush overtook her when she ran into the new manager, unable to stop staring, or mumble a word.
Etymology: hypnotic + hush
