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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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Awkistic
Created by: matrixpro
Pronunciation: awe-kiss-tick
Sentence: He gave her an awkistic hello when the group stared at him to introduce her to them.
Etymology: My brain
Chumstumble
Created by: jboehnker
Pronunciation: chum' stum bel
Sentence: Bob's poor attempt at chumstublimg his way through his encounter with his wife's friends fooled nobody, and left him sleeping on the couch for a week.
Etymology: chum + stumble
Awkwamacies
Created by: Aioua
Pronunciation: Awk'-wer-ma-sees
Sentence: I hadn't seen her for a couple of years, but never the less she rushed in for some awkarmacies while I racked my memory for her name.
Etymology: awkward + intamices
Pretenderness
Created by: polarpanda
Pronunciation: pre-ten-der-ness (not PREE-ten-der-ness)
Sentence: Hey, honey, tell me your cousin Patrice's husband's name again-- he's headed over here, and I don't want all that awkward pretenderness when he leans in for a hug.
Etymology: pretend + tenderness
Namiliate
Created by: Coolfool
Pronunciation: Nam+iliate as in humiliate.
Sentence: I was completly namiliated by that chance meeting with that couple. We double dated a few times and I still can't remember their names!
Etymology: from name, and humiliate.
Famnesia
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: " fam-neej-ah"
Sentence: the elderly are not the only ones to suffer from bouts of famnesia at reunions.
Etymology: Originating from my brain
Stallahug
Created by: wishlish
Pronunciation: stal-a-hug
Sentence: I stallahugged her while trying to remember her name.
Etymology:
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!