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DEFINITION: n. A conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of one-half of a telephone conversation. v. To listen to one-half of a telephone conversation.
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Telesumption
Created by: blakyoshi7
Pronunciation: te-le-sum-sjon
Sentence: Jenny listend intently on his phonecall from across the room ,and could thus telesume he would take her out to dinner. Unfortunately for him, he had no idea about any such thing...
Etymology: tele - afar assumption - make a conclusion based on limited facts
Semicryptology
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: sem-eye-cript-AHL-oh-gee
Sentence: Jim looked up as his wife hung up the phone. "What time," he sighed semicryptologically, "is your mother coming for dinner?"
Etymology: semi + cryptology
Caveclutch
Created by: kyotonils
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He caveclutched that I was talking to Jen about our relationship when I was actually updating her about my sick hamster.
Etymology: Reaching haphazardly for understanding in a poorly-lit cave.
Misconstreevesdrop
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: miss con str eeves drop
Sentence: Danny always had one ear on someone else's conversation to the point that he was known as the office misconstreevesdropper.
Etymology: from misconstrue and eavesdropping
Semiphone
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: SEH-mee-fone
Sentence: Janis, an expert at semiphonics, made most of her investment decisions based upon her boss's phone conversations. Today she was in for a surprise...
Etymology: semi (half) + phone also *semaphore)
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COMMENTS:
- Alchemist, 2007-01-18: 00:34:00
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Disphonection
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: dis-fOn-kshun
Sentence: She was crippled by disphonection, always thinking peolpe were talking about her.
Etymology: disfunction + phone
Prejuclusion
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: pre-joo-kloo-sjin
Sentence: Doug went off on some prejuclusion because he didn't have the facts.
Etymology: portmanteau of "prejudice" and "conclusion"
Miscallculation
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: miss-call-cue-lay-shun
Sentence: he burst out of the bedroom wearing nothing but a christmas hat only to find her whole family in the room sipping warm cocoa....obviously he'd made a massive miscallculation
Etymology: call, miscalculation
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COMMENTS:
This part is just perfect for Hugh Grant ... lovely! - egonschiela, 2007-01-18: 10:36:00
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Bialog
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bīəläg
Sentence: Drawing conclusions from a bialog of an overheard phone call can be as difficult as doing a dot-to-dot puzzle using only the even numbers.
Etymology: Bisect (divide in two [half]) + dialog (conversation between two or more people)
Imaginference
Created by: Filthy
Pronunciation: i-ˈma-jən-fərn(t)s
Sentence: Quite the confabulation artist, Shirley made the imaginference that coffee had caused her daughter's allergy to rats after she overheard snippets of doctors' telephone conversations.
Etymology: imagined [ to form a mental image of (something not present) OR to form a notion of without sufficient basis] + inference [the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former].
Comments:
pratyushprasan - 2007-01-18: 21:26:00
nice
Thanks! ~ James
Sending a hamster for a ride at the Wild Water Kingdom? Pretty extreme, don't you think? Bugs and goldfish, maybe....
jrogan - 2009-08-21: 08:19:00
Yes, it is cruel. And it would certainly be a good idea to flush twice. Especially is she's going to do the boyfriend too.
Krishna - 2009-08-25: 02:35:00
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