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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.
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Transflurgle
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: trans-fler-gull
Sentence: The girl transflurgled to her boyfriend.
Etymology: Vietmanese
Hissplacement
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hiss playse ment
Sentence: When Tiger vocalized his indifference, jealousy and displeasure towards Sybil, it was a catastrophe. She was catatonic briefly before projecting her hissplacement categorically towards her boyfriend,Tom. Afterwhich, Tom was feline purrly...
Etymology: Hiss (the fricative, sibilant noise cats make to express disapproval, contempt ot displeasure) & Displacement (the psychological transference of feelings from one person to another; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one)
Emotransfer
Created by: Orlandin
Pronunciation: Emo-transfer
Sentence: She just emotransferred it to you.
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Superemokinesis
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: soo-per-ee-mo-ki-nee-sis
Sentence: Using the power of superkinesis, she transfered the weight of the world to her best friend.
Etymology: From "kinesis" meaning movement, "emo" as the emotions are being transferred, and "super" is perhaps ironic, but could be from "superficial" as such an act hardly involves deep thought. Also a play on Freud's "superego".
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."
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Cathext
Created by: norallama
Pronunciation: Kuh-theckst
Sentence: I burned the toast, ripped my hose, and then, of course, cathexted all over my assistant the very first chance I got.
Etymology: From "cathexis," meaning "emotional energy" ... and "Next!"
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
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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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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.
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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