Mottleheaded

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Mottleheaded

adj.
feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friends and family, or friends and colleagues, or colleagues and family—mixing a medley of ingredients that don’t typically go together, which risks either watering down your identity into gray mush, or accidentally triggering some sort of explosion.

From motley, comprising incongruous elements + headed. Pronounced “mot-l-hed-id.”

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Skidding

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Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Aulasy

a blurry image of a house on the road

Tillid

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Povism

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