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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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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
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)
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
Barnetologist
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: bar net olo gist
Sentence: he was a true barnetologist, able to read right through the hair line.
Etymology: barnet, an English colloquialism of a hair do.
Hairalyze
Created by: remkoduursma
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
... - remkoduursma, 2006-12-13: 04:48:00
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Strandreader
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: str - and - re - d - ur
Sentence: Val considered herself a perfect strandreader.
Etymology: strand - hairstrand reader - well ... you know sortof like a hand reader but one for hearstrands
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.
Reconnoithair
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: reck/con/noyt/air
Sentence: His job was to reconnoithair the party and alert all incoming males of any signs of PMS.
Etymology: reconnoiter + hair
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
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...
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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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