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Metattle

Someone who reveals that someone else has revealed something. From the Greek meta meaning "after" and the Middle English tattle meaning "tattle."
Vanity Fair metattled on W. Mark Felt's involvement in the Watergate scandal by outing him as "Deep Throat."
by PBMax November 4, 2007
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hiposterous

Having extraordinarily large hips. A combination of hips and preposterous.

Not to be confused with hippoposterous.
Kim Kardashian may have all kinds of implants, but she's naturally hiposterous.
by PBMax September 28, 2008
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self-sexile

1) Leaving one's domicile to avoid roommates when interacting with a significant other

2) Being sexiled of one's own volition
1) Cornelius and his boyfriend frequently went into self-sexile to avoid homophobic housemates

2) Jeremy and Claire always got so loud their roommates had not choice but to self-sexile.
by PBMax September 28, 2008
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Sighness infection

A mood where you feel like sighing all the time. Usually the "infected" are unhappy, but may also be wistful or any other emotion which produces sighs. Not to be confused with clinical depression, which is more persistent but not necessarily more intense.

May also be called "sighnessitis."
Rubi contracts a sighness infection every time she thinks about how her sister Reema got into Harvard but she didn't.
by PBMax February 24, 2008
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finger footsie

An alternate description of holding hands which reinforces its intimate aspects. Used by individuals who are feeling smothered by their significant others.
Whenever Cyriac played finger footsie with Priya, she felt like an animal in steel trap that must gnaw its appendage off to escape.
by PBMax January 9, 2009
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mockward

1) Making a situation more awkward by mocking how awkward it is. The situation need not be awkward in the first place.

Apparently coined by Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse.

2) Mocking someone in an awkward — and thereby probably unsuccessful — manner.

Apparently coined by then-Columbia Journalism Review assistant editor Megan Garber.
Someone asked to define the word "awkward" will often resort to describing the task as "awkward," which is just mockward. When someone does the same with "mockward," it's meta-mockward.
by PBMax May 11, 2008
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Whoristorian

People who can remember almost every guy/girl their friends have hooked up with, how they met, where they were, what nickname they gave the guy/girl and why they were dubbed said nickname. Portmanteau of whore and historian.
Ellie was so adept at recalling her friends' hookups that they dubbed her a "whoristorian."
by PBMax March 13, 2009
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