Voted For: Egalitard

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Ah-mee-gohst

Sentence: Janice and Sylvia glanced surreptitiously at the copy machine while tapping a finger on their respective phone receivers to indicate they would meet at 1pm to exchange client information and catch up on office gossip while making xeroxes of company memos. To the untrained eye, it would be difficult to discern that they were actually good amighosts.

Etymology: Amigos: friends + ghosts: invisible visitors.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: in/kog/mee/goh

Sentence: Jenny liked to have a number of incogmigos at work who were used as her contacts to keep track of all the politics and gossip going on.

Etymology: INCOGMIGO - noun - from INCOGNITO (having one's identity concealed to avoid notice)+ AMIGO (a friend)

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COMMENTS:

I likey, and I votey. :) - lumina, 2008-09-24: 00:07:00

I like it too. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-24: 05:47:00

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Created by: lwidmer

Pronunciation: SLY mah TIZE

Sentence: "Sherri was nearly caught slymatizing with Helen by the fax machine."

Etymology: From the Greek "sly" meaning doing something your mother shouldn't know about, and the Australian "mate" meaning a friend or chum who would hold your hair back while you throw up.

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Created by: Juny1

Pronunciation: cul-int-i-mate

Sentence: During the meeting the were have a culintimate conversation.

Etymology: colleague + intimate

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: dif-er-SOSE-she-ayt

Sentence: Peggy Sue was a social climber as well as being professionally ambitious and she made social distinctions in public between those who could help or who might hinder her professionally as well as socially and would only associate with 'substandard' friends in private...to her, to differsociate was a survival mechanism more than it was a social aberration.

Etymology: Blend of 'differentiate' (to make a distinction) and 'associate' (to join as a companion, partner, or ally)

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COMMENTS:

clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-23: 10:18:00

Is that like differsity? - Nosila, 2008-09-23: 12:49:00

I'll bet Becky Sue, in her attempt to "sniff out" who would help and who would hinder...I am sure she has done quite a bit of kissassociating. :) - lumina, 2008-09-23: 16:56:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kon-frend-den-shuh l

Sentence: Kate and Allie grew up together. They went to college together. They are roommates. The fact that they work as sales reps for competing companies means that their relationship is confriendential at work.

Etymology: confidential (in strict privacy or secrecy) + friend (a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard)

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: snub/or/din/it

Sentence: On the weekends Tiffany and Becka could be found shopping, lunching and looking for love at the hottest clubs together. Becka didn't mind at all that come Monday she was nothing but Tiffany's snubordinate. "Tiff" promised once she got the keys to the Management lounge, they could...well, that she'd get fresher pastries, after work, outside, in the parking lot, around the corner and two blocks down.

Etymology: Snub: To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight. Suborninate: Belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank; secondary.

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COMMENTS:

She should be brought up on charges of insnubordination. - Mustang, 2008-09-23: 08:16:00

snubbery = opposite of snobbery?? very nice word - yellowbird, 2008-09-23: 18:34:00

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Created by: bzav1

Pronunciation: con - veen - fi - dant

Sentence: Rose, having neither lunch nor plans, agreed reluntantly to meet her convenfidant, Elma, in hopes of getting a heads up on the promotion.

Etymology: convenient + confidant antonym - Stalleague stall + colleague Definition - a person a work that will hamper your professional and social standing by association

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Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: uh-soh-shee-ig-nawr-ad

Sentence: John refused to meet his assocignorade, Jayne, for lunch because of the company policy forbidding office romances.

Etymology: Middle English associaten Latin ignōrāre French camarade

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Created by: kimbo123

Pronunciation: secret-frenzy

Sentence: She wanted her only as a secretfriendzy.

Etymology:

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