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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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Glancedancing
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: glance dancing
Sentence: At the company picnic, Jane got guys to go glancedancing at her butt by bending over and pointing out weeds in the lawn.
Etymology: glance, dance
Focalredirection
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: Foe-cool-ree-direction
Sentence: Amy used focalredirection to direct the man to look at her ample chest.
Etymology: Focal: To look or see. Redirection: To direct attention to a particular area.
Peripherequest
Created by: kryptik
Pronunciation: per-ih-fer-ee-kwest
Sentence: Angela kept asking him about her necklace even as she was falling out of her own dress. It was such a blatant peripherequest!
Etymology: From the words 'periphery' and 'request'
Ducoexhibeo
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: duke-oh-ex-hib-eeooo
Sentence: She leaned over the table, pointing at a menu item. Clearly a ducoexhibeo. Clever girl.
Etymology: From latin: duco: to charm, influence, mislead, draw in. exhibeo: show or demonstrate
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
Misdirbreastion
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: Mis-dur-breh-shtyun
Sentence: She tried using misdirbreastion on me, but I knew what she wanted me to see.
Etymology:
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