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DEFINITION: To collect all the emotional energy you receive from one person, and then share it with the very next person you meet.
Verboticisms
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Ignoridity
Created by: mirandapearl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "you are full of ignoridity today arent you?"
Etymology:
Transnubstantiation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: trans/snub/stan/tia/shun
Sentence: What a weight off my shoulders to practice transnubstatiation on an ususpecting passerby after being snubbed by another.
Etymology: transubstantiation + snub
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COMMENTS:
I can't help thinking I need a token for the turnstile when I read that word. ;)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:39:00
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Transfervent
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Tranz-furr-vent
Sentence: I was pretty sure she was feeling transfervent when she replied my "hello" with "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I PAID MY TAXES!"
Etymology: Transfer (to move from one thing to another) + fervent (having emotion or passion)
Flitch
Created by: ChristopherAndersen
Pronunciation: flitch
Sentence: Don't flitch your mom's hostility on me!
Etymology: from "flip" (or maybe "flick"?) and "bitch" (or maybe "pitch"?). Also can be used to describe the flicking, dismissive hand gesture made when trasferring negative energy to others.
Regurgimitation
Created by: loofarama
Pronunciation: re-gurge-im-it-ay-shun
Sentence:
Etymology: regurgitation + imitation
Empugnate
Created by: dzhessi
Pronunciation: emPUGnayt
Sentence: Laura empugnates her friends after she goes to one of her special meetings.
Etymology: en (in) + pug (
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COMMENTS:
Cool - Nolina, 2007-07-22: 16:51:00
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Emopeetoopee
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ee-mo-p-2-p
Sentence: Harold was happy being bald. Honest he was. But after he caught up with shiny-pated Bob who was emotionally disturbed by his own baldness, Harold couldn't help but emopeetoopee.
Etymology: emotion + p2p (peer to peer file sharing)
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COMMENTS:
Bob could buy a toopee for his bald head. - Stevenson0, 2007-07-20: 07:01:00
Toopee, or not toopee? - Kyoti, 2007-07-20: 10:47:00
It was the toopee bit that inspired the sentence about baldness.
An alternative definition might be peer to peer smile sharing, if it's positive emotional energy. - petaj, 2007-07-21: 06:37:00
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Comments:
Kyoti - 2007-07-20: 10:50:00
Ozzie's probably an emociologist on the side, and slightly emotipathic as a result. Must... transfer... moodflings.
Kyoti - 2007-07-20: 10:51:00
Sighhh... not again.