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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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Inflapuated

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: in flap yu ayted

Sentence: Missy Whitetoast was so excited to meet her Bollywood Idol, Mr. Ovthee I. Singh, that her tongue tripped over her teeth and lips. She was so inflapuated with Mr. Singh, she Mumbaied her words. By her own Calcuttalations, her ardor at meeting him exceeded everyone else's. She would have to Goa long way to curry his favor and become his next romantic heroine in one of his films. It was her AGRAvation to be so close to her idol and not be able to pakora-up. In consolation, she would put on her Madras Jodhpurs and go down to the New Delhi and treat herself to a Darjeeling Tea. Naan is so blind as they who cannot see...

Etymology: Infatuated (marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness) & Flap(an excited state of agitation;make a fuss; be agitated;pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds)

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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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Amorthick

Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: amore-thick

Sentence: The dentist's finger probed her mouth and she could moan with pleasure in a rather sad and amorthick way.

Etymology: amor - love. thick - not the most clever.

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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)

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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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Fumblestruck

Created by: ahwinters

Pronunciation: fum + bull + struk

Sentence: Florence was so fumblestruck when she spoke to her that she was barely comprehensible.

Etymology: fumble + struck

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COMMENTS:

Nice one! Rolls nicely on the tounge. Now voted on. - allwise, 2007-02-12: 09:00:00

Any connection to 'thunderstruck'? - Discoveria, 2007-02-12: 17:38:00

haha, great word - babel, 2007-02-12: 20:05:00

welcome back Babel - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-13: 10:59:00

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Moonstuck

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: moōnˌstək

Sentence: When Dylan walked in the room, Georgia and her tongue would become moonstuck. For the past 4 months he had referred to her as Ally, not because he was given to creating alternate names for people but because when he had first asked her name she couldn\'t think of it. She knew it was a State but the only one that came to mind was Alabama.

Etymology: moonstruck (unable to think or act normally, esp. because of being in love) + stuck (be or become fixed or jammed in one place as a result of an obstruction)

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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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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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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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