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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.

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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

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Jarbungle

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Created by: DaddyNewt

Pronunciation: jahr-buhn-guhl

Sentence: Unfortunately, Penny jarbungled everytime she saw Frank.

Etymology: jargon + bungle

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Flameflounder

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: flame/flown/der

Sentence: He was known to flameflounder every time he tried to light her fire with his passionate poetry.

Etymology: flame + flounder

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Idolsmacked

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: eye doll smakd

Sentence: When Raven met Simon Cowell for the first time, she was idolsmacked. Not only was he gorgeous, British and finicky, he winked at her...leading her to believe she offered more of what he needed that she realized. It was not until she got to know him better that she realized he had a lazy eye and winked at everyone. She would have to actually rely on her natural singing skills! How dangerous would that be?

Etymology: Idol (a material effigy that is worshipped as a god; someone who is adored blindly and excessively;an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept)& Smacked (deliver a hard blow to;kiss lightly)

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Adorabull

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ah doe rah bull

Sentence: he was so adorable, he reduced her to stuttering adorabull.

Etymology: adorable bull

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Incrusherent

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: in - crush - hear - ent

Sentence: Belinda became incrusherent whenever Samson entered the room. She had a master's degree in English and worked as a speech therapist but could not help herself speak clearly when she was near him.

Etymology: incoherent (unable to express yourself clearly or fluently), crush (puppy love, infatuation)

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Concrushed

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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)

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Tounginchicing

Created by: Computergeek

Pronunciation: Toungue-in-cheek-ing

Sentence: The thought of dating him was so overwhelming she kept tounginchicing

Etymology: to have your toungue in your cheek

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Lipostucktion

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: lip/oh/stuk/shun

Sentence: Every time she tried to speak her words got sucked back in and twisted. She was suffering from lipostucktion.

Etymology: lip + stuck + liposuction

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COMMENTS:

nice one - galwaywegian, 2011-02-15: 03:44:00

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Crusholalia

Created by: Buzzardbilly

Pronunciation: krəsh-ō-ˈlā-lē-ə

Sentence: n. Every time she tried to talk to him she was struck by a debiliatating case of crusholalia, leaving her unable to make sense and sounding like a dork.

Etymology: crush (in the sense of a temporary infatuation) + o (as a joiner between roots for flow) + lalia (the suffix used to denote abnormal speech such as copralalia [the uncontrollable yelling of curse words associated with some forms of Tourette's], glossolalia [speaking in tongues associated with some religions], and echolalia [the tendency to repeat what others say or the last word or syllable another said])

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