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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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Comforage
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: come - for - rage
Sentence: She's constantly yelling at me because of her comforage
Etymology: comfort and rage
Emotionertia
Created by: garlinger626
Pronunciation: emo-shun-er-sha
Sentence: Sorry about slapping you earlier, I let my emotionertia get the best of me.
Etymology: emotion and inertia
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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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
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:
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.
Etymology:
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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