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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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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

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Moonstutter

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: moōnstətər

Sentence: Julie won an appearance with her favorite singer from a contest held by a radio station. Despite her wobbly knees, she made it onstage only to moonstutter like a starstruck teenager. Oh wait, she IS a starstruck teenager.

Etymology: moon struck (unable to think or act normally, esp. because of being in love)+ stutter (talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds)

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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)

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Incoheroent

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: in ko hero ent

Sentence: When Brooke met her new hunky Manager,Ryan, she became incoheroent. Each time she saw him, she was so bedazzled and tongue-tied that her friends called her The Babbling Brooke.

Etymology: Incoherent (unable to express yourself clearly or fluently) & Hero (someone you idolize)

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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

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Crushonammer

Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: crush-on-mr

Sentence: she was so impressed with that handsome maojor that she could hardly speak. it was just a crushonammer i know. she will forget about him after some days.

Etymology: Crush on = to feel love for some one but for a short time, timely passions which vanish soon. Stammer = to speak with pauses.

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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

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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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