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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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Linguaslippa
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: ling-gwa-slip-ah
Sentence: Katie's linguaslippa caused her to always blurt out inappropriate things when Mark entered the room.
Etymology: lingua (i.e. the tongue) + slip
Attractofied
Created by: tealismyname
Pronunciation: attract- O- fied
Sentence: She was attractofied when ever she heard him speak
Etymology:
Stamenamoured
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: st-am-en-ahhm-erd
Sentence: Is she flighty or is she actually that unintelligent? Oh no, shes just stamenamoured. Oh.
Etymology: from stammer + enamoured
Gahgahdrooler
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Gahhh-gahhh-drewl-er
Sentence: Miss Doyawanna Drool says to Becky, "Oh muhhhh goshhhhh I have become a gahgahdrooler when Antonio looks my way! I turn into a puddle of Doyawanna drool...I'm so gaga over him!" :)~
Etymology: Gahgah: taken from the word-Gaga; French, from gaga fool, of imitative origin Date: 1917 : crazy, foolish : marked by wild enthusiasm : infatuated, doting Drooler; One who drools ; to secrete saliva in anticipation of... :drivel : to make an effusive show of pleasure or often envious or covetous appreciation : to talk nonsense transitive verb : to express sentimentally or effusively
Mumblust
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: mum blust
Sentence: Caroline was finding it difficult to even mumblust through a sentence when talking to Joe
Etymology: from mumbling and lust
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)
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
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])
Twitterpated
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: twit-her-pay-ted
Sentence: Anyone could tell Lisa was twitterpated with Bob by the way she lost her ability to complete a sentence when she spoke to him.
Etymology:
Swoonerism
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: swew nurrr isim
Sentence: Her swoonerism raised eyebrows and temperatures among other things
Etymology: spoonerism, swoon
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welcome back! - mrskellyscl, 2009-09-14: 09:27:00
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