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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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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
Chugotitmane
Created by: BigKP
Pronunciation: ch-you-got-it-man
Sentence: My secret crush at the office kept trying to make Chugotitmane with me.
Etymology:
Conafiliate
Created by: Katie
Pronunciation: con-afil-iate
Sentence: I know we are friends but i cant conafiliate with you in public.
Etymology: con+afiliate
Slitch
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: S L "ICH"
Sentence: Becky was always sliching through the office, just waiting.
Etymology:
Amighost
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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Secretfriendzy
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation: secret-frenzy
Sentence: She wanted her only as a secretfriendzy.
Etymology:
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)
Underpal
Created by: happyjocy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When they were at work, Betty and Jane were 2 people from different planets. But, in a shopping mall, these two underpals made the perfect pair.
Etymology: Under (beneath, below, the other side of things) + pal (friend)
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