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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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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)
Derinstate
Created by: Roshajosh
Pronunciation: Deh/rin/state
Sentence: He derinstated furiously, keeping a straight face.
Etymology: Desperate + Reinstate
Eurathize
Created by: Divakar
Pronunciation: YER-a-thize
Sentence: It was obvious by his expression that John was eurathizing while catching up with his old friend Jill.
Etymology: urgir (french for "urgent" or "urgency")
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
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
Salutamnesia
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: sal-oot-am-knee-ja
Sentence: Cristie's shifting eyes betrayed her salutamnesia.
Etymology: saltue + amnesia
Philostall
Created by: oohisay
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Bob decided his only hope for remembering her name was to philostall. - oohisay, 2006-12-13: 09:42:00
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Fakinize
Created by: greeneye
Pronunciation: fake-in-ize
Sentence: Tom fakinized the oddly familiar woman, his smile barely masking his internal panic as he tried to remember his name.
Etymology:
Relationalize
Created by: mytimeonearth
Pronunciation:
Sentence: It's very common to relationalize at family reunions.
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!