{"id":1251,"date":"2011-07-11T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2011-07-11T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:00:06","slug":"nocquaintance-please-do-not-talk-to-me-while-we-are-in-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"Nocquaintance: Please do not talk to me while we are in the office."},"content":{"rendered":"

DEFINITION:<\/strong> v.<\/em>, To ignore a “friend” at work because you don’t want anyone else to know that you are friends. n.<\/em>, A co-worker and secret “best friend” with whom it is best to keep your friendship confidential.<\/p>\n

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VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n

Nocquaintance<\/strong>: \/no kwayn tans<\/em>\/ 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:<\/em> No (not, negative) & Acquaintance (colleague, associate) Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n

Workjerk<\/strong>: \/werk jerk<\/em>\/ She was a darling at the weekend, but on mondays she reverted to workjerk Etymology:<\/em> work, jerk Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n

Palnopalism<\/strong>: \/Pal-no-pal-ism<\/em>\/ At weekends she’s my pal, then weekdays she’s not. Pal, no pal. (Part-time friend) Etymology:<\/em> Meaning pal (friend) some days, not a pal other days. Created by:<\/em> SteveMB1959.<\/p>\n

Confidont<\/strong>: \/k\u00c3\u00a4nf\u00c9\u2122d\u00c5\u008dnt<\/em>\/ Jill is Judy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best of friend outside of work. At work she is a confidon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, barely acknowledging that she knows Judy. Etymology:<\/em> confidant (a person with whom one shares a secret) + don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t (contraction of
\ndo not) Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n

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Comments on Confidont:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:

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James<\/p>\n

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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 … Continue reading Nocquaintance: Please do not talk to me while we are in the office.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}