RIBOFACTION

The act of turning someone into a gooseberry--acting as a couple so as to exclude someone. From botanical Latin Ribes, the genus including gooseberries, + -faction (making) standard ending from Latin facere, to make. Example: Adam and his girlfriend ribofied me for three-quarters of an hour until I was forced to throw a bucket of cold water over them in order that they would notice I was there. They stopped their ribofaction pretty quickly.