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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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Emotiredirection
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: e-moti-redirection
Sentence: I've been a bit emotiredirectional lately
Etymology: emotion redirection
Emojettison
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: E-mo-JET-iss-on
Sentence: It's a great relief to emojettison after an hour with my neurotic friend.
Etymology: emotion (feeling) + jettison (unload)
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COMMENTS:
Clever! I like it. - Maureen, 2007-01-02: 18:14:00
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Emofection
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: e-mo-fek-shon
Sentence: After being dumped by a post-it this morning, Kate has emofected everyone around with her foul mood.
Etymology: I would prefer emotional Infection, or a latin emopatheogenic maybe, but emofection was more naturally understandable.
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COMMENTS:
emoflection would have been good too -- emotion + deflect - petaj, 2007-01-05: 20:19:00
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Shoutrage
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: sh-out-rayj
Sentence: When my mother phones, it follows that I have to shoutrage my sister to let off steam.
Etymology: shout - usually loud vocalisation! plus rage - emotional state.
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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Shate
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: sh - ate
Sentence: Sorry I didn't mean it. I'm shating because my bloody cat.
Etymology: share + hate
Hysteriotransfer
Created by: tangledupinblue
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After being fired, he hysteriotransferred to the people around him for the rest of the day; he even told the barista to "Hurry it up--oh, wait, you can't do that, can you, you stoned slacker? You're fired. I don't need that watery crap you call coffee anyway."
Etymology:
Transemototherapy
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The kick he received playing football really hurt his shin. Lying in bed later, his wife was less than thrilled as she felt a sharp pain and realised his foot had carried out transemototherapy
Etymology:
Pissdemeanor
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pistdimēnər
Sentence: She really didn\\\'t like her job at the Mall with its annoying, self-centered customers. She would occasionally commit a pissdemeanor by re-directing her frustration at her co-workers or when she would get home and yell at the cat.
Etymology: pissed (very annoyed; angry) + misdemeanor (a minor wrongdoing) + demeanor (outward behavior or bearing, attitude)
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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