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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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Cellaphoney
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: cell-a-fOn-e
Sentence: Jill hides, listening to a cellaphoney conversation. Thinking her friends refering to her, she storms in, yelling and making a fool of herself.
Etymology: cell phone/ phoney
Diallog
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dy al log
Sentence: Eddie knew by the diallog that his wife Pat was having on the phone that they had already been selected for a free Bahamas cruise. Okay, all they had to do was pay for their airfare and expenses to fly from home to Miami and they would be liable for their hotel room and all other costs, but they had won a free trip!! I mean, how often could that happen???
Etymology: Dial (what used to be on telephones) & log (a record of messages sent or received), Wordplay on Dialogue (a conversation between two persons)
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
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)
Eaveschopping
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: eevz-chop-in'
Sentence: His eavesdropping led to the eaveschopping that Sandra was in cahoots with the forces of uncertain evil.
Etymology: From "eavesdropping" and "chop". Suggests a blunt analysis (geddit? ne'ermind)
Oneversation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: wənvərsāshən
Sentence: According to the oneversation Jill was either planning a surprise party for her friend Nicky or the covert overthrow of Nicaragua though the latter would seem less complicated.
Etymology: one (the lowest cardinal number; half of two) + conversation (the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words)
Semiphel
Created by: Marharyta
Pronunciation: The stress is on the first syllable. The last one is not accentuated, but, ob the contrary, is rather blured, for this word is mostly used by extremely busy people of the so-called A personality type (like myself).
Sentence: - What was the last consultation like& - OK. I could semiphel the usual seasonal depression. Of course, I did give him the necessary support through the secind part of the call, but it was more of the same, really. - I wish you did bot rely on your usual semiphels too much, but were attentive during the whole conversation. Perhaps there were unnoticed suicidal tendencies! - Oh no, he told me he was used to phone consultations during what he named ' his autumn spleens'...
Etymology: The first part of the word is a usual and obvious sem-- meaning half in many other words. As for the second part of the word, it combines tele- and -phone. This combination is used for the sake of brevity, but was developed quite naturally by people who, when in a hurry, would come up with 'word versions' like pheletone. The Freudian interpretation is being examined...
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COMMENTS:
I wonder if the conversation can be counted as a sebtence. But I wanted to exemplify both meanings of the word. - Marharyta, 2009-08-22: 06:08:00
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Overhearesy
Created by: Mirandala
Pronunciation: oh-ver-hee'-re-see
Sentence: When Jack secretly listened to Sharon's phone call and concluded that she was having an affair, but that was just overhearesy.
Etymology: overheard + heresy
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COMMENTS:
Well, I would have prefered overheresay, but I always prefer old english pronounciations =) You get a point anyway, it's a cool word! - allwise, 2007-01-18: 03:45:00
Well, I would have prefered overheresay, but I always prefer old english pronounciations =) You get a point anyway, it's a cool word! - allwise, 2007-01-18: 03:46:00
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Conversumption
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kon-ver-SUMP-shun
Sentence: After overhearing his boss say that he was going to fire "the corpulent sloth", Bob, unfortunately, made a conversumption and resigned from his position on the day before he was to be promoted.
Etymology: conversation, assumption
Comments:
pratyushprasan - 2007-01-18: 21:26:00
nice
Verbotomy - 2007-01-18: 21:27:00
Thanks! ~ James
mrskellyscl - 2009-08-21: 07:18:00
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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