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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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Nomentoblag
Created by: slumpman
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Nom and mento from the latin root words for Name and Memory, and blag meaning to fly by the seat of your pants
Graspaw
Created by: ronarscorruption
Pronunciation: grass-paw
Sentence: I saw her standing there, and shook her hand while I graspawed
Etymology:
Hugsheimers
Created by: DarthWader
Pronunciation: hugs hi mers
Sentence: As the the two women stared patiently at each other, Tom wrestled through hugsheimers to provide the requisite introductions.
Etymology: hugs (to embrace or squeeze in one's arms) + alzheimers (the most common cause of premature senility)
Umbrace
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: UMMM-brace
Sentence: Startled by the dark-haired woman's greeting, Jim umbraced her heartily, only to learn she had been waving to the girl behind him in line.
Etymology: Um + embrace
Antianthroponym
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: an-tee-ann-throw-poh-nim
Sentence: The course of antianthroponology is offered at over 500 universities world wide!
Etymology: anti-anthroponym (technical word for human names)
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!