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'Don't kitty me!'

DEFINITION: v. To collect all the emotional energy you receive from one person, and then share it with the very next person you meet. n. Emotional transference.

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Emogashare

Created by: Hjason

Pronunciation: Emo-ga-share

Sentence: Just because you have been hanging out with those guys obsessed with bird calling, don't emogashare your tweets with me.

Etymology: Emotion+gather+share

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Procrastagonize

Created by: Wriiight

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: Procrastinate + Antagonize

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Synurgey

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sin urjee

Sentence: The synurgey that Kitty felt when she met Ramon was quickly turned to catastrophe when she realized he was not a cat lover. In fact, he was a cat hurter.

Etymology: Synergy (the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects) & Urge (push for something)

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Kissplace

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kiss plays

Sentence: When Shania was dissed by her cat, she instead decided to kissplace her resentment on Roger and broke up with him. Now she is catatonic and not feline anything...

Etymology: Kiss (the act of caressing with the lips) & Displace (take the place of)

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Emotiredirection

Created by: Fenners

Pronunciation: e-moti-redirection

Sentence: I've been a bit emotiredirectional lately

Etymology: emotion redirection

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Hissplacement

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hiss playse ment

Sentence: When Tiger vocalized his indifference, jealousy and displeasure towards Sybil, it was a catastrophe. She was catatonic briefly before projecting her hissplacement categorically towards her boyfriend,Tom. Afterwhich, Tom was feline purrly...

Etymology: Hiss (the fricative, sibilant noise cats make to express disapproval, contempt ot displeasure) & Displacement (the psychological transference of feelings from one person to another; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one)

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Moodswapping

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: mood - swa - ping

Sentence: Terry was an expert at moodswapping. He would get into an argument with his boss and take it out on his wife. After a wonderful day with his wife, he would be nice to the checkout clerk at the store and so on.... He always carried the most recent interaction on to the next person.

Etymology: mood, swapping

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Emofection

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: e-mo-fek-shon

Sentence: After being dumped by a post-it this morning, Kate has emofected everyone around with her foul mood.

Etymology: I would prefer emotional Infection, or a latin emopatheogenic maybe, but emofection was more naturally understandable.

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COMMENTS:

petaj emoflection would have been good too -- emotion + deflect - petaj, 2007-01-05: 20:19:00

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Transpurrance

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: trans-pur-uhns

Sentence: Cindy is very close to her cat. Unfortunately Mr. Furball often sets her mood for the day. If he treats her poorly everybody in the office will do their best to stay clear. The emotional transpurrance can be deadly.

Etymology: tansferance (the shift of emotions, especially those experienced in childhood, from one person or object to another, especially the transfer of feelings about a parent to an analyst) + purr (to utter a low, continuous, murmuring sound expressive of contentment or pleasure, as a cat does)

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Transapplicate

Created by: seifip

Pronunciation: transapplicate

Sentence: I have transapplicated my feeling on him... He just reminded me of my lazy cat!

Etymology: trans + applicate

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Comments:

Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-08-07: 09:28:00
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