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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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Greefting
Created by: Jessj
Pronunciation: Grief-ting
Sentence: I was greefting all night at that party.
Etymology: Drifting from person to person with knowledge of identity + greeting
Amnamesia
Created by: Chunk01
Pronunciation: Am-name-sia
Sentence: Despite spending a fun filled 14 days together in Cancun, now he saw her again in his home town he suffered a serious case of amnamesia
Etymology: name+amnesia = amnamesia
Derinstate
Created by: Roshajosh
Pronunciation: Deh/rin/state
Sentence: He derinstated furiously, keeping a straight face.
Etymology: Desperate + Reinstate
Hugstall
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: hug-stall
Sentence: Julie could not remember her friend's name so she hugstalled for time.
Etymology: hug + stall
Prevaricuddling
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: pre-vari-cud-ling
Sentence: As soon as he saw me he started to hug me in his prevaricuddling way
Etymology: prevaricate (avoid stating the truth) cuddling (embracing)
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
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!