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.”

Idlewild

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Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Hem-Jawed

an abstract image of someone touching their face

Ioia

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Candling

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Incidental Contact High

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