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DEFINITION: n. A specially coded language, which newly dating couples use to describe their relationship when they don't want other people to realize that they have "the hots" for each other.v. To talk about sex in a code words.
Verboticisms
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Codate
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: ko-deit
Sentence: They said they were just a team, but everybody could sense Dave and Ann was codating; the way they snickered when they talked, how they appeared at work at the same time every day and of course the strange sounds from the locked copying-room.
Etymology: code + dating/ co-working
Secretoric
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: seek.re.torik
Sentence: "would you like to swish the monkey?" she asked him secretorically. He grinned and they left the room.
Etymology: secret + rhetoric
Speechpassology
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: spEEch-pass-ol-ogy
Sentence: David and Jill made passes in the speech pathology lab, using speechpassology.
Etymology: speech pathology/pass
Whatusi
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: what us eeee
Sentence: their use of whatusi was wearing thin, he had already allegedly helped her remove something from her eye twelve times that week.
Etymology: wha us? watusi
Sinnuendo
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sinyoōendō
Sentence: They had only been dating for a couple of days but they already have developed an entire vocabulary of sinnuendo. They can get each other charged up with the most common of phrases. It’s gotten to the point that that many in the office are uncomfortable if they speak to each other at all.
Etymology: sin (an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law) + innuendo (an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one)
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COMMENTS:
in you end? Oh! great word - galwaywegian, 2011-02-09: 07:31:00
Beats youth in Asia... - artr, 2011-02-10: 12:09:00
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Flinguistics
Created by: alphabetapolothology
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Their cover was blown after being caught making out in the elevator, but they still insisted on using flinguistics in front of the boss.
Etymology: fling & linguistics
Obfuscationshipspeak
Created by: bailandi
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Oh man, did you hear Tom and Mary at the office yesterday, I thought they were talking about work but when I listened closely, it was more obfuscationshipspeak than anything else!"
Etymology: Using the word Obfuscate, meaning to make unclear and relationship, to indicate it's between two people. adding "speak" to indicate a new type of language comes from Orwell's 1984.
Sexicon
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: seks i kon
Sentence: Barry & Meredith had fallen in love at work. Since fraternization was frowned upon,and they were both partnered with others, they had to develop their own "Code of Conduct", to allow themselves stolen moments at work. It was their sexicon. "Catching up with my filing", in the filing room had a whole new meeting. As did "getting supplies" and "doing a donut run". But their greatest fears were realized when "going to the reproduction centre" became true.
Etymology: Sex (all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses; activities associated with sexual intercourse)& Lexicon (a language user's knowledge of words; a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them)
Nudgenudge
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: ˈnəjˈnəj
Sentence: You have to know they weren't really talking about stapling documents in such detail; they were nudgenudging with double entendres. Really, if they nudgenudge anymore, I might just have to tell them we all know they're dating because every conversation they have is filled with nudgenudges.
Etymology: From the infamous Monty Python "Nudge Nudge" sketch about making everything be sexual innuendo and is often referred to as "wink wink, nudge nudge."
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COMMENTS:
Say no more, know what you mean, a wink's as good as a nod to a blind horse, nuff said, wink, wink, nod, nod! - Nosila, 2009-09-08: 01:21:00
"Ello SQUIRE! Your wife's a goer....know what i mean? - metrohumanx, 2009-09-11: 00:19:00
Yes, I do... - Nosila, 2009-09-11: 01:09:00
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Diglatin
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: dihg + laa +tin
Sentence: Marty and Jane's would only communicate in diglatin at work; no one would possibly suspect they were a hot item.
Etymology: like piglatin
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COMMENTS:
ervay everclay - Iway ikelay itway - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-13: 10:56:00
emay ootay!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-13: 19:16:00
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Comments:
Alchemist - 2007-02-13: 07:34:00
Rhyming verboticisms should get Bonus points! great etymology!
Alchemist - 2007-02-13: 07:38:00
oops. that comment was for rikboyee's word "lovercover"