WORDHUMPING

(1) The process of fixating on a specific, isolated word when one is speaking to you, interrupting the conversation, repeating the word obsessively for minutes/hours/days (in any and every context) until it renedered almost meaningless, then discarding it until it has some useful purpose again (i.e. in an actual sentence.) (2) Taking a word out of context and enjoying it simply for the sound. Example: Example 1 Person 1: So my great-great-great aunt had the bubonic plague and... Person 2: (wordhumping) Wait, stop. You said, 'bubonic.' Person 1: Yeah, and so... Person 2: Bubonic. Bubonic. Boo. Bonic. Boo-bonic. Person 2: (next week, on the phone to Person 3) Oh my god, I was at that party the other night and it was so damn bubonic... Example 2: Slacks.