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DEFINITION: v., To seek out old acquaintances even though you never really knew them that well, or liked them very much, in the first place. n. An old and unwanted friend who has suddenly reappeared.
Verboticisms
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Tracehellement
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: Treis-hell-E-ment
Sentence: Bob, googled and gazette-gawped, hoping to find Trixy, who friends said had turned, since school days, from a termagant to a "ten" But, finally, when the folketchup took place, there was nothing saucy about her. Trixy was an "aghast from the past." Bob, blunderstruck and aghasthenic, conceded that the whole episode had been a total tracehellement. He vowed that he would never allow himself to tracehellementate again.
Etymology: Blend of trace & hell & element. element:one of the facts in the enquiry. Folketchup=folkatchup. Aghasthenic: weakened by surprize and horror.
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COMMENTS:
Great word and sentence OZ! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-01: 09:28:00
you always get my vote for your sentences - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-01: 12:24:00
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Alumnaut
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: A-lum-nawt
Sentence: MySpace the banal frontier. John was so lonely that he spent numerous hours a day searching any social url he could think of trying to find names that seemed familiar. He was a perpetual Alumnaut. Even when he found someone, they rarely, if ever, remembered him.
Etymology: Alumni: a graduate or former student + Astronaut: a person who is trained to travel in (cyber?) space
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COMMENTS:
Who could possibly forget whats-his-name? - metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:51:00
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Reunionsult
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: re-YUNE-yin-sult
Sentence: Germond loved to go back to his hometown each year to meet up with old classmates, and he'd invariably seek out his former detractors to hammer them with reunionsults and to boast about the great success he'd achieved in his life.
Etymology: Blend of the words 'reunion' and 'insult'.
Deadendfriend
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: dedd-end-frend
Sentence: Is it socially acceptable to block a deadendfriend on every social network I have an account with?
Etymology: Dead end, (no opportunity for advancement) + friend.
Acquainthunts
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ah-kwaint-hunts
Sentence: the arrival of Google, Myspace and Facebook have made acquainthunts easier than ever.
Etymology: acquaintence, hunt
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COMMENTS:
Clever! - Scrumpy, 2007-10-01: 09:29:00
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Hasbeenstalker
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: has/been/stock/ur
Sentence: Jack just couldn’t live in the present and became a hasbeenstalker. His mother accused him of living in a fairy tale but he assured her that one day he would live happily ever after. Eventually he got a job at he supermarket stocking day old beans.
Etymology: has been (behind the times) + stalk (hunt or pursue) + Jack and the Beanstalk
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COMMENTS:
heh - galwaywegian, 2008-09-01: 07:34:00
Like IS like a beanstalk, isn't it? - metrohumanx, 2008-09-01: 08:41:00
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Myfacefriend
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: my-face-frend
Sentence: It was a sad day when Greg Arious realised that he'd gone way too far online networking. He had 656 contacts, most of whom were myfacefriends. It was time unfriend them.
Etymology: Myspace & Facebook social networking sites where people collect "friends" and renew acquaintances with folks they haven't seen or heard for years.
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COMMENTS:
How does one unfriend them?? - Nosila, 2010-01-29: 10:39:00
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Refound
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: re/found
Sentence: Having just been dumped by Tony, Jenna searched high and low for her yearbook! "Who was that guy," she thought, "The one who would drool as I sat in front of him in homeroom?" She frantically flipped pages, cell phone in one hand, google page up and ready. This was nothing new as she was known to start most of her relationships while on the refound.
Etymology: word play with rebound...but of course... :)
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COMMENTS:
Simple yet elegant, Lumina. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-09-02: 12:28:00
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Friendfreakquest
Created by: joelb
Pronunciation: frend-FREEK-kwest
Sentence: I friendfreakquested that girl who I sat behind in grade seven. She still wore her mothers old outfits and smelled like vanilla from ten feet away.
Etymology: friend request + freak
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by OZZIEBOB and Karuma. Thank you OZZIEBOB and Karuma! ~ James
Nettle - 2007-10-01: 08:42:00
I've done exactly this myself. It rarely seems to lead to anything good, other than the occasional moment of smug satisfaction which comes from knowing that you're much more successful than the people who used to bully you at school (but it's not really satisfaction, because didn't you know, deep down, that they'd never amount to anything anyway?)
galwaywegian - 2008-09-01: 07:42:00
like it !
Today's definition was suggested by OZZIEBOB. Thank you OZZIEBOB. ~ James