Verboticism: Chatfauxfoe
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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Closetist
Created by: MithrilShadow
Pronunciation: Klosetist
Sentence: Do you ever get the feeling those two might have a thing for each other? I think they might be closetists.
Etymology: From the phrase "In the closet"
Nosociate
Created by: Lolagrrl
Pronunciation: Know-soss-ee-ate
Sentence: You can't tell by the way he dismisses my ideas but the AD of Marketing is a nosociate of mine... Really... He is.
Etymology: No - not, nyet, negatory, nunca + Associate minus Ass - as in "a$$hole" but the ass is still there, it's just silent
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COMMENTS:
Funny etymology! - purpleartichokes, 2007-10-25: 11:38:00
Hahaha! Thanks! :D - Lolagrrl, 2007-10-25: 12:36:00
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Hushhushpal
Created by: Missnah
Pronunciation: hush-hush-pal
Sentence: As hushhushpals Sarah and I pretended to barely tolerate each other at work.
Etymology: To keep sth hush hush - to keep it quiet/secret pal - friend
Friendeprecate
Created by: QuantumMechanic
Pronunciation: fren dep ruh cate
Sentence: Don't come to my office George, or I'll have to friendeprecate you -- I need to keep my nose clean.
Etymology: friend + deprecate
Secretfriendzy
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation: secret-frenzy
Sentence: She wanted her only as a secretfriendzy.
Etymology:
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:
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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Confriendential
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kon-frend-den-shuh l
Sentence: Kate and Allie grew up together. They went to college together. They are roommates. The fact that they work as sales reps for competing companies means that their relationship is confriendential at work.
Etymology: confidential (in strict privacy or secrecy) + friend (a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard)
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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Stealthmate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: stealth-mate
Sentence: Even though they were best friends and soulmates, Tori and Sue had to be stealthmates in the office because it was against company policy to a supervisor to be friends with an underling. They even went to the next town to go shopping or to clubs so that no one from the office would see them.
Etymology: stealth: moving, acting or proceeding in a covert way + mate: one of a matched pair; close associate
