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DEFINITION: To ask someone to look at one thing, when you really want them to look at another thing, which is better left unspecified.
Verboticisms
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Pervoy
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: perv-oi
Sentence: She had a reputation as a pervoyeur, enticing men to view her "charms" by asking them to look at her etchings.
Etymology: purvey (supply, offer) + voyeur (one who enjoys watching especially sexual acts) + perv (colloq. taking a look at someone's physical attractions)
Eyeaside
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: eye - a - side
Sentence: Please come and eyeaside the view from the bathroom while I take a shower.
Etymology: From eye as in to view something and aside to take attention away from an object
Duplicisplay
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: from "duplicitous" and "display"
Diflirticate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: dy-flur-ti-kate
Sentence: She used her new boots to diflirticate from the shortness of that killer skirt.
Etymology: From "divert", "flirt" and the "icate" bit is for the connotations of "selfish, catty person" (i-cat yes, pretentious, I know). Plus "-icate" is a great suffix for such a compelling verb.
Askpeering
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: ask/peer/ing
Sentence: As Tallulah Too-Too, pirouetted her way around the bodacious buffet table while tossing out a few gratuitous double-entendres not to mention casually revealing her cleavage over a punch bowl, she realized that her askpeering amorous techniques left a little something to be desired.
Etymology: ask + peering
Diviewsion
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: die-view-zhun
Sentence: Claire asked John to see if she had a loose seam on the back of her blue jeans, but it was really a diviewsion.
Etymology: diversion, view
Fishingleer
Created by: bohdel
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She used a fishingleer to pick up guys at the bar. "Just look at how I spilt this on my shirt," she'd say, "I'll never be able to wear it again."
Etymology:
Divhersion
Created by: dstorm78
Pronunciation: Div-Her-Shun
Sentence: John fell prey to Mandy's divhersion when she asked for a raise.
Etymology: A play on the word diversion and the inclusion of the pronoun 'her', since it is generally assumed that a woman would commit this act. It could be supposed that 'divhesion' might also be an acceptable use.
