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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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Reunmemtrieve
Created by: BDR1985
Pronunciation: re-un-mem-trieve
Sentence:
Etymology: Reunion + Memory + Retrieve
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)
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
Stallahug
Created by: wishlish
Pronunciation: stal-a-hug
Sentence: I stallahugged her while trying to remember her name.
Etymology:
Communamnesia
Created by: solsticesword
Pronunciation: commun-amnesia
Sentence: The man with an otherwise incredible memory suffered from communamnesia around his friends.
Etymology: commun from community and amnesia from amnesia
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!