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'But I only see her once a year'

DEFINITION: To share greetings, hugs, and kisses with old friends and familiar faces, while you desperately try to remember their names.

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Namnesia

Created by: MisUndrstd

Pronunciation: Nam-nee-zia

Sentence: My cousin Vinnie, suffering from namnesia, couldn't remember the name of our Sicilian cousin Guido. thus making family reunions, baptisms, weddings and funerals uncomfortable.

Etymology: Name+ Amnesia= Namnesia.

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haha - blondibabi121692, 2007-07-11: 22:51:00

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Aroteamp

Created by: onetwothree

Pronunciation: arrow-tee-am-p

Sentence:

Etymology:

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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:

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Nameandfacedisorder

Created by: blondibabi121692

Pronunciation: name and face dis order

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Dejawho

Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: deja who

Sentence: i know i'd seen her before i just couldn't remember. i must be having deja who

Etymology: deja vu + who

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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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that's quite a close embarrace - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-11: 16:18:00

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Recognlies

Created by: HALibut

Pronunciation: rek-uhn-lahyz

Sentence: He recognliesed almost everyone at his high-school reunion fondly recalling that time they played that funny joke on old Mr. what's his face during that big assembly senior year.

Etymology: recognize + lie

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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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An uncomfortable sexchange of greetings followed. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-11: 09:55:00

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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

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Frots

Created by: missmurder

Pronunciation: frots

Sentence: The boy frots alot.

Etymology: forgets+alot

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