Verboticism: Stealthmate
DEFINITION: v., To ignore a "friend" at work because you don't want anyone else to know that you are friends. n., A co-worker and secret "best friend" with whom it is best to keep your friendship confidential.
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Hyde
Created by: zxvasdf
Pronunciation: hīd'
Sentence: To engage in a hyde is to deny your companion, and further suggests as to the superficiality of the relationship despite outward clues towards the otherwise. Sigh! She's hyding again. I guess I'll eat lunch by myself again, thought Suzy. Hydden relationships cluster in office buildings all over the world. Confessions of a Serial Hyder: A Memoir was ranked at lowest by the NY Times owing to the generally unappealing choice of verbosity.
Etymology: Hyde (of Jekyll and Hyde notoriety, suggesting a complete upheaval of the original personality)
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COMMENTS:
BRILLIANT! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-14: 02:46:00
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Chugotitmane
Created by: BigKP
Pronunciation: ch-you-got-it-man
Sentence: My secret crush at the office kept trying to make Chugotitmane with me.
Etymology:
Slitch
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: S L "ICH"
Sentence: Becky was always sliching through the office, just waiting.
Etymology:
Palnopalism
Created by: SteveMB1959
Pronunciation: Pal-no-pal-ism
Sentence: At weekends she's my pal, then weekdays she's not. Pal, no pal. (Part-time friend)
Etymology: Meaning pal (friend) some days, not a pal other days.
Careerful
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: car + ear + full
Sentence: I got a careerful from my buddy about his weekend of boozing and carousing, but then we went back to just being plain old co-workers.
Etymology: career + earful
Convenfidant
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: con - veen - fi - dant
Sentence: Rose, having neither lunch nor plans, agreed reluntantly to meet her convenfidant, Elma, in hopes of getting a heads up on the promotion.
Etymology: convenient + confidant antonym - Stalleague stall + colleague Definition - a person a work that will hamper your professional and social standing by association
Amighost
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Ah-mee-gohst
Sentence: Janice and Sylvia glanced surreptitiously at the copy machine while tapping a finger on their respective phone receivers to indicate they would meet at 1pm to exchange client information and catch up on office gossip while making xeroxes of company memos. To the untrained eye, it would be difficult to discern that they were actually good amighosts.
Etymology: Amigos: friends + ghosts: invisible visitors.
Incogmigo
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: in/kog/mee/goh
Sentence: Jenny liked to have a number of incogmigos at work who were used as her contacts to keep track of all the politics and gossip going on.
Etymology: INCOGMIGO - noun - from INCOGNITO (having one's identity concealed to avoid notice)+ AMIGO (a friend)
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COMMENTS:
I likey, and I votey. :) - lumina, 2008-09-24: 00:07:00
I like it too. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-24: 05:47:00
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Friendicate
Created by: svnfsvn
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Me and bob friendicated during happyhour.
Etymology: friend + syndicate
Differfriendsheaint
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: diff-er-FREND-she-aynt
Sentence: Leann was a social and professional climber and though she had become pals with some of her coworkers, whenever the out of town bosses were around she would always differfriendsheaint, publicly ignoring her friends.
Etymology: Blend of words 'differentiate'( to make a distinction) 'friend' and 'aint'.
