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Turgidphobia 

(tûr′jĭd-fō′bē-ə)
1. The abnormal, irrational fear of using bombastic words, which compels one to avoid them in communication.
2. The fear of being misunderstood from the usage of bombastic words.
3. An irrational dislike of people who use bombastic words.

This word was created by combining two words 'turgid' and 'phobia', this came by as a result of an observation made of the phenomenon where people know a lot of bombastic words or not so commonly used words in everyday language, but they feel anxious to use the words when communicating for fear of being misunderstood, taken out of context or judged. Instead, they choose to use simple words or the most common words, in order to fit in.

submitted by Senzo Spencer Tsibande
‘Gugu has turgidphobia and therefore prefers to make use of the simplest English words.’

'Spencer had just learned the word pulchritude but was afraid to use it in his class speech and instead he used the word beautiful. He later realized that he had turgidphobia.'
Turgidphobia by Mkhontweni February 6, 2021
Related Words
tuigi Tuggie tugi Turgid tigist Tuition tubgirling tugging twigit Tigihit
Tigist is an absolute queen. Tigist is friends with everyone she meets but also is crazy loyal to her best friends and will hype them up on the daily. Honestly everyone needs a Tigist in their life.
"Tigist just bought me McDonalds bro. . . ."
"Aw dang man she's the G"
Tigist by squashou December 1, 2020

tugging your toque 

Typical Canadian slang talking about joking around. Can be used in many situations but exceptionally well used in winter where you can pull the toque down over their eyes making the metaphorical "pulling the wool over their eyes" more literal.
"Hey man did you REALLY do that?"
"No way man, I'm just tugging your toque."
tugging your toque by Keeganimus August 24, 2018

Tigi Bo Dolla 

Tigi Bo Dolla, or Tigi for sort, is an infamous character who spends his days going around fucking peoples shit up. If something goes wrong during the day one can say it must have been Tigi Bo Dolla or I've been Tigi'd
Tigi Bo Dolla by Astroman420 May 20, 2009
1. A fee charged for instruction at a school or university.

2. Teaching: instruction, especially when given individually or in a small group.
Like private schools or home teaching, tuition is charged. It isn't for free.
Tuition by Jafje April 26, 2007

side tugging 

The act of pulling or grabbing ("tugging") on one's penis, through clothing, when excited.

Side tugging is not necessarily an expression of sexual arousal (at least, explicitly).
Example 1: Shane is side tugging; he must have thought up a new moneymaking scheme.

Example 2: Whenever this girl text messages me, I start side tugging. Sometimes I even do it during class!
side tugging by biggz_wi May 23, 2011