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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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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
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
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
Twitterprated
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: twit-ter-pray-ted
Sentence: Bambi would become completely twitterprated when Tom walked into the room and act like a schoolgirl with her first crush. You would never know that she was a Speech Therapist by the inarticulate babble coming from her mouth.
Etymology: twitterpated: flighty, excited feeling you get when you see someone you are attracted to (from the movie Bambi)+ prate: to blather or babble on endlessly; foolish chatter
Inarticulove
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: In-ar-tick-cue-love
Sentence: Brenda was afflicted with inarticulove for the postman...unfortunately the postman had no such problems: "You're ugly, love!"
Etymology: In love + inarticulate. Articulate: to speak, suggests proper speech/eloquence.
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-12: 10:57:00
Spare a thought for poor Brenda! :D - Discoveria, 2007-02-12: 17:34:00
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Awestuck
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She was so captivated by him that the mention of his name left her awestuck.
Etymology: From: Awestruck meaning disconcerted, agape, dazed and Stuck meaning disabled, marooned or immobile.
Inflatulate
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She inflatulated so profusely that he began to wonder if she had a speech impediment or was mentally challenged in some way.
Etymology: infatuatoin & flatulence
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
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)
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])
