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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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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
Strandalyze
Created by: riflesandkids74
Pronunciation: strand-uh-lyz
Sentence: When riding the subway each morning, I sometimes strandalyze some of the passengers (Even those wearing hats).
Etymology: strand + analyze
Doodify
Created by: Coolfool
Pronunciation: Doo + defy
Sentence: After one look at Janey this morning, I doodified that she probably didn't even make it home last night, and she wasn't the one to ask favors from today.
Etymology: Doo, from her (hair)do, dify from identify.
Coiffuread
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kwah-fyoor-reed
Sentence: Judging by his greasy comb-over they coiffuread that he was fighting the aging process and his mirrors at home were filthy.
Etymology: coiffure (a style of arranging or combing the hair) + read (to interpret the meaning of by scrutiny or observation)
Toplockraphy
Created by: logan260
Pronunciation: top-lock-ruh-fee
Sentence: Jane's toplockraphical signs indicated that she prefers her wild nights on the carpet as opposed to more conventional furniture, based on the residual static electricity swirling about her like a psychotic halo.
Etymology: topographical....assessing geography based on the upper appearance of the earth. locks.......hair
Thairapy
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: thair a pea
Sentence: They should have realized all she needed was the correct thairapy.
Etymology: From: therapy and hair.
Fricktrizzle
Created by: msokoloffster
Pronunciation: Frik - Triz - uhl
Sentence: Sarah slapped anyone who fricktrizzled her; she thought it was bogus.
Etymology: Unknown...
Psychiatress
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sigh kai ah tress
Sentence: definately a bad hair day, on so many levels, her psychiatress said in clipped tones
Etymology: psychiatrist tress
Hairballology
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: hair-bal-ol-a-gee
Sentence: Even though she was highly paid, professional hairballologist, Cynthia often doubted her expertise -- especially in the morning, when she looked in the mirror and saw an airhead.
Etymology: hairball + ology
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.
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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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