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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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Hidentify
Created by: r0b0tj0n3z
Pronunciation: high-dent-if-eye
Sentence: Sharon struggled to hidentify her old friend.
Etymology: hi, identify
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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Duhquaintance
Created by: jadenguy
Pronunciation: du kwayn tanse
Sentence: Though he led them well, casual nature led many to believe that he was perhaps disinterested in the System, but calling them Son and Daughter and passionately greeting them did much to dissuade the forming of such an opinion. How unpleased those closest to him would be if they understood that they were just duhquaintances.
Etymology: duh + acquaintance
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COMMENTS:
55 words. thanks for the suggestion mplsbohemian. - jadenguy, 2007-07-11: 11:28:00
oh, and i did a word for yesterday. i was just swamped yesterday! - jadenguy, 2007-07-11: 11:36:00
they probably loved Strawberry Duhaiquiris - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-11: 15:14:00
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Whoisitize
Created by: alex26
Pronunciation: hoo-IZ-uh-tyze
Sentence: While the old lady was giving me a hug, I was desparately whoisitizing her to no avail.
Etymology: From "who is it?"
Amnesianuzzle
Created by: ReeTard
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Robert was approched by a hord of old friends whom he dutifully gave to each an amnesianuzzle.
Etymology:
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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COMMENTS:
haha - blondibabi121692, 2007-07-11: 22:51:00
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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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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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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:
