Emodox

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Emodox

n.
someone whose mood is perpetually out of sync with everyone else around them, prone to feelings of naptime panic, heart-to-heart snark, or dance club pensiveness.

From emotional + dox, not conforming to expected norms. Pronounced “ee-moh-doks.”

Spinning Playback Head

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Burn Upon Reentry

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Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street

Kuebiko

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Karanoia

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