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Hairedity
Created by: Kevcom2007
Pronunciation: hair/ed/it/ee
Sentence: Her hairedity is terrible today!
Etymology: Hair + (Her)edity
Hairpinion
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: hair-pin-yun
Sentence: It was everyone's hairpinion that Martha's constant hairstyle changes reflected her moods. If she was having a good day her hair looked well groomed, but if she had a fight with her boyfriend she looked pretty ratty.
Etymology: hair + hairpin: a little metal thing which is used to keep hair out of one's face + opinion: a conclusion that was based on belief instead of concrete facts.
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COMMENTS:
A neat and stylish word. I bet your hair looks good today! - jrogan, 2009-07-30: 09:06:00
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Tresstify
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: tress-ti-fy
Sentence: By the look of her hair, I'd tresstify that she's insane
Etymology: tress (braid of hair) testify (witness)
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
Hairot
Created by: Fleury
Pronunciation: HAIR-oh
Sentence: Your Hairot Card reading says "something wicked this way comes"
Etymology: hair + tarot
Tressomancy
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: tre-suh-man-see
Sentence: I tried to look aloof but she was using the dark powers of tressomancy to divine my true feelings.
Etymology: From MANCY which means "divination by means of" and TRESS which means "hair".
Trichoanalysis
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: try-co-a-nal-a-sis
Sentence: Sven gave up his psychology course for hairdressing, but still liked to analyse his customers. He called it trichoanalysis
Etymology: trich (prefix meaning hair or thread) + psychoanalysis (you know what that is)
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COMMENTS:
Somehow I stumbled over this old one and had to have a go. - petaj, 2007-03-07: 03:28:00
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Infurpretate
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: in-fir-pre-tate
Sentence: When interviewing folks for new postitions the recruiter typically delved kno further than his infurpretation
Etymology: Fur + interpretation
Doodiligents
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: doo dili gents
Sentence: When Tress was having a bad hair day, everyone knew it. The men in her life learned to stay clear if her ends were split or if her mane problem was her coiffure. They were examples of doodiligents and they knew Tress would cut, tease and brush them off if they cropped her style. They knew the fall out would be permanent and the best treatment was to streak out of her way and not frost her off worse. By extension, the mane reason they liked her was that her locks were to dye for, shorn nuff. Just don't get her dander up...
Etymology: Due Diligence (Investigation and analysis a prudent entrepreneur, owner, executive, or lender does in making business decisions.) & Doo (hair-do)
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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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