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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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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
Inflirtpretation
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: in-flert-pre-tay-shun
Sentence: I hate going out with John. He inflirtpretates everything I do. It makes me crazy.
Etymology: interpretation + flirt
Fauxveal
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: foh VEE ul
Sentence: Despite the overwhelming odds young Bush fauxveals a frightening & incoherent reality.
Etymology: faux pas + reveal
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
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
Miscorpalinference
Created by: Kevcom2007
Pronunciation: mis/core/pohl/in/fur/ants
Sentence: "Oh my, that was a tight miscorpalinference! I should really think twice about what she's really getting at!"
Etymology: misunderstanding + corpus + inference
Cueless
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: q-less
Sentence: John was extremely persistent and totally cueless, so it usually took several slaps in the face, before he'd understand what-the-hell she was thinking.
Etymology: cue +less = clueless
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?