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.”

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Trumspringa

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Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Skidding

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Adomania

a person riding a horse

Vicarous

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