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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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Confidont
Created by: Chickp
Pronunciation: Con-fee-dont
Sentence: My office confidont will remember that we do not talk now but after hours.
Etymology: Confidant + don't
Nocquaintance
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: no kwayn tans
Sentence: Although Sally had hired her best friend Melissa and had still socialized with her outside work at non-work functions, she did not want it known they were friends. Melissa was now a nocquaintance and went along with this charade.In truth, Sally and she were long-time lovers and their employer, The Straight Times, a gay-bashing extreme newspaper tended to frown on this type of relationship!
Etymology: No (not, negative) & Acquaintance (colleague, associate)
Dispalomime
Created by: hooterbug
Pronunciation: dis/pal/o/mime
Sentence: My dispalomime Suzy cant keep her trap shut when we are at the office. I dont want anyone to know we go out after work because everyone considers Suzy to be a floozy. Well, she IS one but Suzy always attracts lots of men when she goes out and theres always an extra wingman for me.
Etymology: Dis (to show disrespect for; affront) + Pal (intimate friend; comrade; chum.) + Pantomime (conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-23: 10:20:00
Love it! - Nosila, 2008-09-23: 12:42:00
good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-24: 05:49:00
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Snubordinate
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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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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Cryptopal
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: crip-toe-pal
Sentence: Clay and Doug worked at the same company but their immediate bosses were locked in a vicious feud so they were strictly cryptopals at work.
Etymology: crypto + pal. Origin from Greek kruptos 'hidden.'
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COMMENTS:
Cute...so Superman's secret friend is a Kryptopal?? - Nosila, 2010-02-23: 00:30:00
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Dissassociate
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: dis-ass-oh-see-ate
Sentence: Although Margot liked to tell Gina all about her man troubles during trips to the bathroom, she thought it better for her reputation to dissassociate with her at all other times.
Etymology: diss - slang for snub + associate - syn for friend
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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Sorpe
Created by: FreakoSpeako
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The lady sorped her friend for her job.
Etymology:
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
lumina - 2008-09-25: 12:01:00
"Yay!" :)
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James