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DEFINITION: v. To collect all the emotional energy you receive from one person, and then share it with the very next person you meet. n. Emotional transference.
Verboticisms
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Poorboire
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: poor/bwire
Sentence: If you can't kick a gift horse in the mouth...at least leave a poorboire they'll never forget!
Etymology: variation of "pourboire" - a gift or gratuity
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COMMENTS:
good one quip! clever... - wordmeister, 2007-01-02: 16:02:00
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Angstorm
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ang-storm
Sentence: After receiving a tongue-lashing from his wife, Bob angstormed the poor dog for getting dog food crumbs on the floor.
Etymology: angst, storm
Transflurgle
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: trans-fler-gull
Sentence: The girl transflurgled to her boyfriend.
Etymology: Vietmanese
Ferventing
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: fur-vent-ing
Sentence: ferventing is just another word for displacing, the psychological defense mechanism...
Etymology: fervent+forwarding, as in email.
Hissplacement
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hiss playse ment
Sentence: When Tiger vocalized his indifference, jealousy and displeasure towards Sybil, it was a catastrophe. She was catatonic briefly before projecting her hissplacement categorically towards her boyfriend,Tom. Afterwhich, Tom was feline purrly...
Etymology: Hiss (the fricative, sibilant noise cats make to express disapproval, contempt ot displeasure) & Displacement (the psychological transference of feelings from one person to another; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one)
Convibe
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /k&n-'vIb/
Sentence: Krisna was a very well-balanced person, partly because he would convibe any negativity he received onto his computer. His computer, on the other hand, was just plain miserable.
Etymology: from convey + vibe
Emojettison
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: E-mo-JET-iss-on
Sentence: It's a great relief to emojettison after an hour with my neurotic friend.
Etymology: emotion (feeling) + jettison (unload)
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COMMENTS:
Clever! I like it. - Maureen, 2007-01-02: 18:14:00
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Reflexivenom
Created by: adobrodt
Pronunciation: ree-flex-i-ven-uhm
Sentence: Jenny met Bob after the disastrous art show and commenced to reflexivenomize on him for forty-five minutes.
Etymology: From reflection and VENOM
Disscharge
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: Diss-charge
Sentence: Gus felt extremely guilty after disscharging his feelings on the bus driver on his way home, after all it wasn't his fault he got fired!
Etymology: From the urban word "diss" meaning to disrespect and "discharge" meaning to relieve.
Comments:
Carole - 2007-01-02: 22:55:00
Good one Peta, yours has the same meaning as mine. Emotedump.
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