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DEFINITION: v. To assess an individual's current mental state, or identify hidden personality traits, through careful analysis of their hairstyle. n. A method of psychoanalysis based hairdos and don'ts.
Verboticisms
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Tresstimate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: tress-te-mayt
Sentence: as she walked in the room it was clear that 90% of the people there had already started tresstimating her abilities
Etymology: tress, estimate
Tressicate
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Was she happy? He studied her head and undertook the tressicate test.
Etymology:
Hairot
Created by: Fleury
Pronunciation: HAIR-oh
Sentence: Your Hairot Card reading says "something wicked this way comes"
Etymology: hair + tarot
Tresstology
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: tress/tol/ogy
Sentence: Having completed his course in tresstology, Bertie Ditherinton knew a bad hair day when he saw one!
Etymology: tress: a lock of hair + ology: the study of
Folifrazycology
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: folly-fraz-e-cology
Sentence: Using folifrazycolgy, we were able to determine that Ken was a lazy individual.
Etymology: folicle-frazzle-psycology
Cheveaxappeal
Created by: paperpieces
Pronunciation: Sheh-voah-AH-peal
Sentence: "Hey man, look at her! Her body is bumpin'" "Yeah dude...uhhh, but her cheveauxappeal ain't workin' for me..."
Etymology: Cheveaux- French for hair, -appeal meaning attraction
Salonalysis
Created by: bjorn
Pronunciation: salon-alysis
Sentence: By a cursory salonalysis of his hairstyle, it was readily apparent he was from an outer borough.
Etymology: salon + analysis
Failohan
Created by: BeauKnows
Pronunciation: Fail-O-han
Sentence: Starting off in a parent trap. Later becoming a mean girl on a freaky Friday. Then driving a Volkswagen bug "fully loaded", spells disaster. That’s not a bad hair day! That’s a failohan.
Etymology: Failing and Lohan
Comments:
chris - 2006-12-01: 11:32:00
I like 'coiffology'.....
wordmeister - 2006-12-01: 11:49:00
I like hairballogy, but then again I created it. I guess it's lucky we can't vote for our own words...
CHANGES TO VOTING AND SCORING
Due to popular demand we are changing the voting and scoring rules. Here is how the new setup works:
1. Voting: Each player gets two "plus" Votes (Against votes have been eliminated.)
2. Creativity Points: You get 4 points for creating a word, 4 points for creating a sentence, plus 1 point each for the pronunciation and etymology.
3. Voting Points: Each vote counts for 3 points
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NOTE 2: We have made the changes but it may have unintended consequences. Let us know if anything screws up...
chris - 2006-12-01: 13:01:00
...good of you to be so objective about things, wordmeister :)
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-01: 13:42:00
I like it alot - sometimes the sentences are better than the words. This will encourage all of us with fragile egos
wordmeister - 2006-12-01: 13:54:00
Check out the revised player standing -- chris and Jabberwocky are neck and neck. This could get vicious! Oh wait... They removed the negative voting. Dang!
ChrisCarrk - 2006-12-01: 15:57:00
it seems menthairity is a really funny word, rock on!
wordmeister - 2006-12-01: 23:39:00
Hey Bjorn, Nice one with 'Salonalysis'. It's from different angle...
splendiction - 2009-07-30: 23:21:00
yes, and Mona (Lisa) has that mysterious smile, too! Excellent word
artipt - 2018-12-03: 19:28:00
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