Verboticism: Egalitard
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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Cubedestfriend
Created by: zavijava
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My cubedestfriend was so serious about keeping our friendship secret that if she needed advice at work, she'd go to the bathroom and call me at my desk.
Etymology: cubicle+clandestine+friend
Comradeshush
Created by: prufrock73
Pronunciation: kŏm'răd'-e-shŭsh
Sentence: Grinning at each other during the meeting, none of the other staff had any idea that Gladys and Eunice were comradeshushes.
Etymology: comrade + shush Likely first appeared in 19th century Russia.
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COMMENTS:
A Siberian soujourn will wipe the grins off their faces. Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-25: 18:49:00
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Confidont
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: känfədōnt
Sentence: Jill is Judy’s best of friend outside of work. At work she is a confidon’t, barely acknowledging that she knows Judy.
Etymology: confidant (a person with whom one shares a secret) + don’t (contraction of do not)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2011-07-07: 04:36:00
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Slymatize
Created by: lwidmer
Pronunciation: SLY mah TIZE
Sentence: "Sherri was nearly caught slymatizing with Helen by the fax machine."
Etymology: From the Greek "sly" meaning doing something your mother shouldn't know about, and the Australian "mate" meaning a friend or chum who would hold your hair back while you throw up.
Mystimate
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: mis-ti-meyt
Sentence: She mysticated almost everyone in the office and it seemed to be working well so far. Next on her list was to conquer the cleaning staff - after hours of course.
Etymology: mystic (secret) + mate (pal)
Comradeslip
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: com/rad/slip
Sentence: Our friendship vaccilated between comradeship and comradeslip when the upper management were within earshot.
Etymology: comradeship + slip
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COMMENTS:
i like your sentence :) - Lidipop, 2007-10-25: 10:37:00
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Snubordinate
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: snub/or/din/it
Sentence: On the weekends Tiffany and Becka could be found shopping, lunching and looking for love at the hottest clubs together. Becka didn't mind at all that come Monday she was nothing but Tiffany's snubordinate. "Tiff" promised once she got the keys to the Management lounge, they could...well, that she'd get fresher pastries, after work, outside, in the parking lot, around the corner and two blocks down.
Etymology: Snub: To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight. Suborninate: Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.
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COMMENTS:
She should be brought up on charges of insnubordination. - Mustang, 2008-09-23: 08:16:00
snubbery = opposite of snobbery?? very nice word - yellowbird, 2008-09-23: 18:34:00
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Slykick
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: SLAHY_kik
Sentence: Bob & Roxie remained cautiously inchummunicado, slykicks and chumdestine shushmates through out years of marriage.
Etymology: SLY: dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice & KICK: (as in sidekick): close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: mate, cobber, digger, buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal,)
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COMMENTS:
inchummunicado and chumdestine are fabulous - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-23: 10:19:00
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Snubjugate
Created by: badsnudge
Pronunciation: \ˈsnəb-ji-ˌgāt\
Sentence: Felicia would often snubjugate her office-mate when others were around yet would confide and even depend upon Molly when alone.
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin 'snubguts'