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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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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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Dumpchump
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dump-chump
Sentence: As soon as he heard that her dog mauled her big toe, he ran for the hills knowing full well he'd be dumpchumped.
Etymology: dump (to dispose of something) + chump (sucker, sitting duck)
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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Ignoridity
Created by: mirandapearl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "you are full of ignoridity today arent you?"
Etymology:
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.
Repsychle
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: ree-sigh-kl
Sentence: Frank felt sure Jodie was repsychling her cat's negativity....
Etymology: recycle + psyche = repsychle
Remocate
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ree-MOH-cayt
Sentence: As Alex's girlfriend slammed the door in his face, he automatically assumed she was remocating from a phone call just before.
Etymology: relocate + emotion
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.