Verboticisms

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)

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Created by: zavijava

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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

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Created by: StrangerThenFiction

Pronunciation: app-rope-ree-at-al-is

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: sin derr al eye

Sentence: She would cover up her evenings with her cinderally by telling the people at the office that she had hired her to do some cleaning.

Etymology: cinderella, ally

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COMMENTS:

Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-10-25: 18:52:00

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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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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)

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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

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: diff-er-FREND-she-aynt

Sentence: Leann was a social and professional climber and though she had become pals with some of her coworkers, whenever the out of town bosses were around she would always differfriendsheaint, publicly ignoring her friends.

Etymology: Blend of words 'differentiate'( to make a distinction) 'friend' and 'aint'.

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Ah-mee-gohst

Sentence: Janice and Sylvia glanced surreptitiously at the copy machine while tapping a finger on their respective phone receivers to indicate they would meet at 1pm to exchange client information and catch up on office gossip while making xeroxes of company memos. To the untrained eye, it would be difficult to discern that they were actually good amighosts.

Etymology: Amigos: friends + ghosts: invisible visitors.

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Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: S L "ICH"

Sentence: Becky was always sliching through the office, just waiting.

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