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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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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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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
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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Amnesianuzzle
Created by: ReeTard
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Robert was approched by a hord of old friends whom he dutifully gave to each an amnesianuzzle.
Etymology:
Likeemphisis
Created by: smartperson
Pronunciation: like-em-fis-sis
Sentence: i have likeemphisis abot you.
Etymology:
Familanesia
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: fuh/mil/a/nee/zhuh
Sentence: "Hi! How are you two? How's everything?" What are their names? What are their names? Please mention your names. MEMORY WORK! MEMORY WORK!! MEMORY WORK!!! Another embarrassing case of familanesia making me feel uncomfortable again.
Etymology: familiar + amnesia
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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Wondakiss
Created by: Alanna27
Pronunciation: won-duh-kiss
Sentence: i was wondakissing this girl for like an hour.
Etymology: wonder-kiss
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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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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