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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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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:
Substatraction
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: sub stih track shun
Sentence: girls are very good at substitraction, such as the one in this picture.
Etymology: substitute + attraction
Obswerve
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: ob-swerve
Sentence: When Marko pointed out someone had come in through the door, I knew he surreptitiously intended for me to obswerve the shapely waitress in the tight fitting top.
Etymology: From observe and swerve
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'
Saloppe
Misvisualize
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She misvisualized me as she asked me to look at her earrings, bending over temptingly as she exposed her cleavage more.
Etymology:
Intituate
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: in-tit-you-ate
Sentence: She was intituating him in that low cut dress, no matter how purple her hair was.
Etymology: Insinuate+tit
Suductocence
Created by: Partario
Pronunciation: soo-duct-oh-sense
Sentence: "She had a particular flair of suductocense about her"
Etymology: Suduction + innocence = suductocence
Gapeshifting
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Gayp-shif-ting
Sentence: I gapeshifted Tom to look across the street at the drug store so he would see the couple fighting on the street.
Etymology: Gape - to stare with open mouth, as in wonder. Shifting - To move or transfer from one place or position to another.
Divriage
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: div-ree-ahge
Sentence: She divriaged his attention to get him to notice her over his wife.
Etymology: from diverage
