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tartingles 

feeling intense embarrassment for someone else.

When someone does something so pathetically embarrassing that you would not be human if it didn't embarrass you just through your proximity to the situation.

It is especially potent when you witness this embarrassing act.
Gaby, did you just see that poor girl trip on a banana and impale herself on a hooker's spiky boot?. . . I have such tartingles!
tartingles by professor Quinta December 1, 2006
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Tartingles 

(Noun) The sensation of embarrassment at someone else's awkward situations.
1) God, doesn't Curb Your Enthusiasm give you the worst fucking tartingles?

2) I have a rough case of the tartingles whenever a usually quiet kid gets drunk and becomes an uncontrollably loud and honest mysogynist
Tartingles by ..s.s.s December 20, 2008

tartangle 

to feel embarrassed for someone in a movie even though you are not part of the scene
"Oh my god the entire "She's the Man" is a giant tartangle!"
tartangle by toesabel February 22, 2010