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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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Welcomnesiate
Created by: Dboozer
Pronunciation: (wel-cum-knee-zhee-ate)
Sentence: Barry welcomnesiated everyone at the family reunion before he finally realized he was at the wrong family reunion.
Etymology: welcome+amnesia+ate(verb)
Heyyounited
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: hay-yoo-ni-ted
Sentence: When Bob was heyyounited with the pretty blonde he had slept with ten years ago, he lost all chances of getting another date.
Etymology: hey you (greeting used when you can't remember someone's name), reunited
Hellowatsitphobia
Created by: realnutty01
Pronunciation: hello-what's-it-phobia
Sentence: Jim looked around and was filled with hellowatsitphobia at all the faces he knew but no names.
Etymology: hello- greeting. what is it- something you can not remember. phobia- a syndrome.
Likeemphisis
Created by: smartperson
Pronunciation: like-em-fis-sis
Sentence: i have likeemphisis abot you.
Etymology:
Welcummm
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: WEHL-kuhmmm
Sentence: Alex welcummmed his cousin Betty--or was it Jean?
Etymology: welcome + ummm (sound made when trying to remember)
Shargot
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: sh-ay-r-g-aw-t
Sentence: Meggy felt soooooo uncomfortable as she and everyone else in the room tried to remember each other's names.
Etymology: share+forgot
Embarrace
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: emm barr ais
Sentence: He held her in his usual embarrace, frantically searching innhis memory banks for a matching memory of her sound, scent, shape of her ears, nose or butt, anything that might trigger a memory.
Etymology: embrace, embarrass,
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COMMENTS:
that's quite a close embarrace - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-11: 16:18:00
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Rosmin
Created by: rahullotli
Pronunciation: ros-min
Sentence: i m in rosmin
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
cool - rahullotli, 2007-07-14: 14:02:00
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Forggels
Created by: amysmiles2000
Pronunciation: for-gah-elles
Sentence: When I bumped into Peter last weekend at the reunion, it was ackward. I was forced in giving forggels until I could recall who this man.
Etymology: forged + huggles fake hugs
