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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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Reflexaffect
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: /RFLKSFKT/
Sentence: Didn't your mum say that line to you five minutes ago? stop reflexaffecting me!
Etymology: Reflexaffect: reflex from the E reflect meaning show an image, and affect from the E affected, meaning have an effect on
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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Ferventing
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: fur-vent-ing
Sentence: ferventing is just another word for displacing, the psychological defense mechanism...
Etymology: fervent+forwarding, as in email.
Emotransfer
Created by: Orlandin
Pronunciation: Emo-transfer
Sentence: She just emotransferred it to you.
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Catkick
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: CAHT-kik
Sentence: Don't catkick me just because you had a shitty day at the amusement park.
Etymology: from the age old tale of the person who gets shit on at work and comes home and kicks the cat.
Shate
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: sh - ate
Sentence: Sorry I didn't mean it. I'm shating because my bloody cat.
Etymology: share + hate
Moodswapping
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: mood - swa - ping
Sentence: Terry was an expert at moodswapping. He would get into an argument with his boss and take it out on his wife. After a wonderful day with his wife, he would be nice to the checkout clerk at the store and so on.... He always carried the most recent interaction on to the next person.
Etymology: mood, swapping
Emollector
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: "ee-moe-leck-tour"
Sentence: I am a totally emollector
Etymology: emotion + collector emollector yay!
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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