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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.
Verboticisms
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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)
Transemosupernova
Created by: spacemonkeymafia
Pronunciation: trans-i-mō-sōō'per-nō'va
Sentence: The transemosupernova has been the cause of many arguments started by my girlfriend.
Etymology: Trans - From the Latin meaning "across, over, or beyond. Emo - from emotion, French émotion, from Old French, from esmovoir, to excite, from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin movēre, to move. Super - Latin, from super, over, above.
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COMMENTS:
Ran out of room for the etymology for nova. Here it is. Nova - New Latin (stēlla) nova, new (star), nova, feminine of Latin novus, new. - spacemonkeymafia, 2007-01-02: 12:38:00
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Transmoshun
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: trans-moe-shun
Sentence: Pete received the full impact of Kelly's day through transmoshun.
Etymology: transmit + emotion + shun
Premoject
Created by: sleep
Pronunciation: pree-moe-ject
Sentence: She premojected her emotional baggage on me like last week's cole slaw.
Etymology: project + emo
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COMMENTS:
Last week's cole slaw? Sounds like premojectile vomiting... Scarey girl! - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:12:00
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Poorboire
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: poor/bwire
Sentence: If you can't kick a gift horse in the mouth...at least leave a poorboire they'll never forget!
Etymology: variation of "pourboire" - a gift or gratuity
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COMMENTS:
good one quip! clever... - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:02:00
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Reflexaffect
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: /RFLKSFKT/
Sentence: Didn't your mum say that line to you five minutes ago? stop reflexaffecting me!
Etymology: Reflexaffect: reflex from the E reflect meaning show an image, and affect from the E affected, meaning have an effect on
Bittershed
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: bit - ter - shed
Sentence: After the boss bawled me out I bittershed my angst on to the delivery boy.
Etymology: Bitter - characterized by intense animosity. Shed - to get rid of.
Emoticonduit
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ee-moat-ee-kon-due-it
Sentence: As she angrily replied to his email with colon, left bracket..she knew she shouldn't be mad at him...but she'd just got off the phone with her mother... she was a classic emoticonduit
Etymology: emotion, conduit
Reflexivenom
Created by: adobrodt
Pronunciation: ree-flex-i-ven-uhm
Sentence: Jenny met Bob after the disastrous art show and commenced to reflexivenomize on him for forty-five minutes.
Etymology: From reflection and VENOM
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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