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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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Moodiflect
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: moo dee fleckt
Sentence: Karen was a killer moodiflect, you could bet if she'd been to visit her mom in prison, she'd be very strange that day.
Etymology: from mood and deflect
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COMMENTS:
I wonder what she was like when she didn't go to prison? - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:09:00
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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
Emotedump
Created by: Carole
Pronunciation: ee motey dump
Sentence: Cecil was completely floored by the vehemence of Conny's latest emotedump.
Etymology: emote/ emotion. dump/ drop, let go of load.
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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Projectileemoting
Created by: dstorm78
Pronunciation: proj-jec-tile-ee-mote-ing
Sentence: I'm so tired of you projectileemoting all over the place every morning...we're through.
Etymology: This is a combination of projectile vomiting and emoting. Therefore, one would upchuck their emotions without warning.
Transapplicate
Created by: seifip
Pronunciation: transapplicate
Sentence: I have transapplicated my feeling on him... He just reminded me of my lazy cat!
Etymology: trans + applicate
Synurgey
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sin urjee
Sentence: The synurgey that Kitty felt when she met Ramon was quickly turned to catastrophe when she realized he was not a cat lover. In fact, he was a cat hurter.
Etymology: Synergy (the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects) & Urge (push for something)
Transferlament
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: trans-FER-leh-ment
Sentence: Whenever Sally was hit with negative emotions from her interactions with her mother, which was a very frequent occurrence, she would transferlament, laying all her tears and woes on her boyfriend Frankie.
Etymology: Bland of 'transfer' (to shift something or someone from one place to another) and 'lament' (to feel, show, or express grief, sorrow, or regret)
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
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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