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'But I only see her once a year. And I do remember her hair. And her lips...'

DEFINITION: To share greetings, hugs, and kisses with old friends and familiar faces, while you desperately try to remember their names.

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Shmoozemporize

Created by: squirrelian

Pronunciation: shmoozemporize

Sentence: He shmoozemporized until he could make a graceful exit.

Etymology: "Shmooze" plus "temporize" (temporize as in stall for time).

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Palkering

Created by: 321JOS

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Sentence: I saw an old friend and I was palkering his name

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Demember

Created by: Chistinalove

Pronunciation: De - mem - burr

Sentence: If I don't see you everyday I have a tendency to demember you.

Etymology: de - to do the opposit of member - part of the word remember

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Namenesia

Created by: GreatRandew

Pronunciation: nam-nee-see-ya

Sentence: When namenesia struck, Bertie could hardly remember his own name, never mind anyone else's

Etymology: Name + amnesia

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Graspulation

Created by: Alchemist

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Sentence: At the family reunion, Alice was in mid graspulation when she finally remembered Uncle Ed's name.

Etymology: From Grast, to grasp, and emulation, to emulate

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Grunnaknowtings

Created by: garneteyes

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Touchmerize

Created by: Auxilizz

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Sentence: They feeded each other with the warmest greetings, while touchmerizing at the same time

Etymology: = touch + memory + memorize + arise

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Namelessloveness

Created by: truefedwa

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Stallinom

Created by: skelk

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Graspaw

Created by: ronarscorruption

Pronunciation: grass-paw

Sentence: I saw her standing there, and shook her hand while I graspawed

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Comments:

Jabberwocky - 2006-12-11: 12:34:00
Babel - I love hospiwhothehellity

babel - 2006-12-11: 13:45:00
familanesia is a great one stevenson

wordmeister - 2006-12-11: 14:01:00
Personally, I find embarassing when I get familanesia or hospiwhothehellity... Why do you guys like it?

Jabberwocky - 2006-12-11: 15:31:00
I agree - both are great words but Babel - I think you could expand it to hospiwhothellareyouity

babel - 2006-12-11: 15:33:00
hospiwhothehellareyoulookingatmelikeimsupposedtoknowyouity

babel - 2006-12-11: 15:34:00
oh well, i guess i found the max single word length haha

wordmeister - 2006-12-11: 15:51:00
Yes, I can only guess how your word ends...

CaptPoco - 2006-12-18: 10:19:00
Memorafeeblia is so fun to say!