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DEFINITION: To share greetings, hugs, and kisses with old friends and familiar faces, while you desperately try to remember their names.
Verboticisms
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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
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
Graspulation
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation:
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
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
Prefrend
Created by: remkoduursma
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was prefrending to know her
Etymology:
Stallfection
Created by: neojester12
Pronunciation: Stal-fec-shun
Sentence: The thanksgiving dinner was abound with stallfection.
Etymology:
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
Derinstate
Created by: Roshajosh
Pronunciation: Deh/rin/state
Sentence: He derinstated furiously, keeping a straight face.
Etymology: Desperate + Reinstate
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!