DEFINITION: v., To ignore a “friend” at work because you don’t want anyone else to know that you are friends. n., A co-worker and secret “best friend” with whom it is best to keep your friendship confidential.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Nocquaintance: /no kwayn tans/ Although Sally had hired her best friend Melissa and had still socialized with her outside work at non-work functions, she did not want it known they were friends. Melissa was now a nocquaintance and went along with this charade.In truth, Sally and she were long-time lovers and their employer, The Straight Times, a gay-bashing extreme newspaper tended to frown on this type of relationship! Etymology: No (not, negative) & Acquaintance (colleague, associate) Created by: Nosila.
Workjerk: /werk jerk/ She was a darling at the weekend, but on mondays she reverted to workjerk Etymology: work, jerk Created by: galwaywegian.
Palnopalism: /Pal-no-pal-ism/ At weekends she’s my pal, then weekdays she’s not. Pal, no pal. (Part-time friend) Etymology: Meaning pal (friend) some days, not a pal other days. Created by: SteveMB1959.
Confidont: /känfÉ™dÅnt/ Jill is Judy’s best of friend outside of work. At work she is a confidon’t, barely acknowledging that she knows Judy. Etymology: confidant (a person with whom one shares a secret) + don’t (contraction of
do not) Created by: artr.
Comments on Confidont:
galwaywegian, 2011-07-07: 04:36:00
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