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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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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.
Eyecantell
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: i-can-tell
Sentence: Eyecantell that she is saying yes, but i am not quite sure...
Etymology: I+eye+can+tell
Fauxveal
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: foh VEE ul
Sentence: Despite the overwhelming odds young Bush fauxveals a frightening & incoherent reality.
Etymology: faux pas + reveal
Losetrueviewclues
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: lose (miss) true (real) view (on show) clues (information)
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:
Aspy
Created by: lala54
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My ex-boyfriend is not an asshole, he is just very aspy.
Etymology: Aspergers Syndrome, a mild for a Autism that is not accompanied by mental retardation. People with asbergers syndrome have a hard time reading social cues and connecting with others.
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?