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DEFINITION: To recognize and loudly greet a friend only to realize that it is a complete stranger, who now thinks that you are somewhat odd.
Verboticisms
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Recoget
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Sorry I recogot you. I thought you were my brother but now I see you must be someone else.
Etymology:
Embarrassmeet
Created by: trioptimum
Pronunciation: em-BARR-uhs-meet
Sentence: Simon cringed as he recounted to everyone present the details of that morning's embarrassmeet.
Etymology: meet + embarrassment
Howdoyoudoh
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: how-do-yoo-d'oh!
Sentence: i walked into the room and committed one of the loudest howdoyoudoh's that anyone had ever witnessed.
Etymology: how do you do, d'oh
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COMMENTS:
LOL - Lurky2000, 2007-09-03: 01:46:00
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Reactcident
Created by: joelb
Pronunciation: re-AKT-sid-ent
Sentence: I pretended that my friend was actually somewhere behind this weirdo who my reactcident seemed to have excited.
Etymology: react + accident
Greetgaffe
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: GREET-gaff
Sentence: You should have seen the look on Bob's chumystified face, when he realized that the person whom he had greeted so loudly was a complete stranger. This greetgaffe was just the latest in his long list of cobberclangers. Only later on, when he learned that it was his greatest chumistake yet, did he decide that it was time to start compiling a corrifriendum.
Etymology: Greet: to welcome & gaffe: awkward social error, a faux pas.
Wreckognition
Created by: caffreyc
Pronunciation: wreck-og-ni-tion
Sentence: My wreckognition ability seems to be growing as I get older
Etymology: wreck, recognition
Salutorture
Created by: elron
Pronunciation: sal-yoo-tor-chur
Sentence: From the back, Sally thought it was her friend, Jude, but quickly realized it wasn't and suffered salutorture.
Etymology: salutation + torture
Yoohoowho
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: u/who/who
Sentence: She greeted, who she thought was Jenny, with a loud yoo-hoo. It quickly turned into a yoohoowho when she realized it was a complete stranger.
Etymology: yoo-hoo + who
Howdelusion
Created by: Pseudonym
Pronunciation: how-dee-loo-shun
Sentence: "Since I stopped talking to people, I no longer suffer from howdelusion."
Etymology: howdy + delusion
