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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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Namezheimer

Created by: BrakX

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Ringabellfacing

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: ring-uh-bel-fays-ing

Sentence: I'm not going to my class reunion -- it will just be a bunch of people ringabellfacing each other.

Etymology: interfacing + rings-a-bell

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Forgautonym

Created by: johnnyrockett

Pronunciation: For-got-o-nim

Sentence: As I walked in to my high school reunion, I realized that I would experience forgautonym many times this night.

Etymology: Forg - Forgot Autonym - a person's own name

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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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Hugnesia

Created by: labareda

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Memorafeeblia

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: mem/ora/fee/blee/a

Sentence: Memorafeeblia always hits him at the most awkward times - hopefully a wide smile and lots of nodding will get him through

Etymology: Memorabilia + feeble

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Prefrend

Created by: remkoduursma

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Sentence: He was prefrending to know her

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Stallfection

Created by: neojester12

Pronunciation: Stal-fec-shun

Sentence: The thanksgiving dinner was abound with stallfection.

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Anonymingle

Created by: Ahoytheship

Pronunciation: a-non-ni-mingle

Sentence: He anonymigled around the party, successfully rekindling relationships with all the complete strangers in the room.

Etymology: Anonymous+mingle

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Derinstate

Created by: Roshajosh

Pronunciation: Deh/rin/state

Sentence: He derinstated furiously, keeping a straight face.

Etymology: Desperate + Reinstate

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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!