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DEFINITION: To overlook or misinterpret non-verbal cues, like body language, which often reveal what a person is truly thinking or feeling.
Verboticisms
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Buggathatitis
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Arms folded, legs crossed and a look of indifference from Maria did not deter Mark. Buggathatitis he thought lustfully.
Etymology:
Gestureblind
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: gest ure blind
Sentence: he was completely gestureblind, he never knew when anyone was hinting at anything.
Etymology: bilnd to any gesture or gesticulation
Miscorpsintralogy
Created by: paperpieces
Pronunciation: Miss-corps-in-tra-low-gee
Sentence: My girlfriend sometimes gives me all these hints with her body, and when I do not understand them she says that i should take a course in miscorpsintralogy.
Etymology: Mis- meaning not, -corps- from corpse, -intra- meaning within, -logy meanign any particular study
Misinterstand
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: mis-inter-stand
Sentence: Don't misinterstand the way she dresses because she really is conservative.
Etymology: mis-interperet-understand
Signullify
Created by: bjorn
Pronunciation: sig-nullify
Sentence: His Asperger's caused him to signullify all but the most blunt and painful hints - especially those literally so.
Etymology: signal + nullify
Schizomeania
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: skiz/o/mee/ni/a
Sentence: His schizomeania was constantly getting him in trouble. He could never figure out where he stood - but that was okay because he was delusional as well
Etymology: schizophrenia + meaning
Cuelessness
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Q-less-ness
Sentence: Although he thought the girl wanted to go home with him, Fred was cueless that when she said she was going to the bathroom, she was actually planning to run out the door.
Etymology: Cue - a hint; intimation; guiding suggestion, lessness - as is cluelessness.
Persecue
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: 'p&r-si-"küt
Sentence: He had a tendency to persecue me because I tend to smile at others when I run into them.
Etymology: PERSECUTE = Middle English, from Middle French persecuter, back-formation from persecuteur persecutor, from Late Latin persecutor, from persequi to persecute, from Latin, to pursue, from per- through + sequi to follow CUE
Bodymiss
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: Bo-dy-miss
Sentence: I though she was sending me a kiss, but she was only making a face. I bodymissed her completely.
Etymology: body+miss
Losetrueviewclues
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: lose (miss) true (real) view (on show) clues (information)
Comments:
wordmeister - 2006-12-05: 08:39:00
Good words today. Hey Babel looks like winfirmity was the clear winner yesterday. Congratulations.
chris - 2006-12-05: 14:07:00
...presumably if there were lots of people who were 'Cueklutzes', they would form a CueKlutz Clan......
babel - 2006-12-05: 14:57:00
hehe, nice one chris... and thanks meister, i'm trying to give you two some competition :)
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-05: 16:49:00
hey guys - don't blunderestimate me - I'm not as cueless as you think and hey deadpanwalking - you should have left the shun in your word - very clever
wordmeister - 2006-12-05: 18:09:00
CueKlutz Klan? Is that a terrorist organization for nerds?
wordmeister - 2006-12-05: 18:12:00
I like dissexia, despite the fact that greg has not posted a sentence for it. Perhaps Mr. Batch suffers from dissexia? Or should it be dissentencia?