Vote for the best verboticism.
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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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.
Anonymugs
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Uh-nohn-uh-mugs
Sentence: After 20 years, the family reunion was festooned with dozens of anonymugs I hadn't seen in years, although they had no trouble remembering me.
Etymology: Anonymous(no name)+mugs(facial)
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COMMENTS:
pretty good! - weareallbeautiful, 2007-07-11: 17:06:00
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Memorafeeblia
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: memor/ah/feeb/lia
Sentence: Memorafeeblia always hits him at the most awkward times - hopefully a wide smile and lots of nodding will get him through.
Etymology: memorabilia + feeble + memory
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COMMENTS:
Not to be confused with the fish that school around geriatric sharks: remorafeeblia. ;)) Good one, Jabs! - Kyoti, 2007-07-11: 18:12:00
Those remora are there for the food. They should be remorafeedlia - petaj, 2007-07-12: 03:11:00
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Incognize
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: in-cog-neyes
Sentence: Many of her brain cells having lost the valiant struggle against Dom Perignon, Susan was forced to incognize most of the people she met, so successfully that everyone she called "Daahling" felt that they were best of friends.
Etymology: incognito + recognize
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COMMENTS:
Nice job, especially getting "incognito" in there. - Dboozer, 2007-07-11: 21:01:00
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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)
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: high-per-in-form-E-uh
Sentence: Thanks to John's hyperinformia, he can recite the complete installation instructions for his new garage door opener in English, Spanish, and French.
Etymology:
Likeemphisis
Created by: smartperson
Pronunciation: like-em-fis-sis
Sentence: i have likeemphisis abot you.
Etymology:
Frots
Created by: missmurder
Pronunciation: frots
Sentence: The boy frots alot.
Etymology: forgets+alot
Salwhotation
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Sal-hyoo-tay-shun
Sentence: It was an awkward salwhotation when some creepy-looking man came running up and then hugging me. I cried, perplexedly, "Who are you!" as he hugged me in affection. I was mortified when 'he' exclaimed, "It's Janice, your sister!"
Etymology: Salutation (a greeting) + who (interrogative pronoun: what/which person)
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COMMENTS:
An uncomfortable sexchange of greetings followed. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-11: 09:55:00
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Hootherhug
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: who-the-hug
Sentence: As usual Bob stuck close to Betty to make use of her photographic memory. Nevertheless he could not entirely avoid hootherhugging a bunch of his trice-removed cousins that Betty had never met before.
Etymology: Who the heck are you? + hug
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COMMENTS:
If you found out that she used to be your wet nurse or your favourite waitress, would you give her a hooterhug? - galwaywegian, 2007-07-11: 06:52:00
is it a hoosierhug if they went to Indiana U or were that guy who also did lex luthor, what was his name... - jadenguy, 2007-07-11: 11:43:00
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