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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.
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Poutificate
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: phonetically
Sentence: She smiled as he ate and asked him "Do you like my dumplings"?
Etymology: pout is a facial gesture and when used to convey a double entendre becomes poutification
Duplicisplay
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: from "duplicitous" and "display"
Cameleize
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: its just wrong...
Sentence: camellia always wanted men to cameleize at her.
Etymology: from chameleon to look in two separate directions at the same time
Misdiracktion
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: miss-die-rack-shun
Sentence: his eyes were drawn inevitably downward in what was a stunning piece of misdiracktion
Etymology: misdirection, rack
Difostentate
Created by: grammatically
Pronunciation: dif-os-TEN-tate
Sentence: Jim kept trying to difostentate towards his belt when I knew he wanted to show off something else.
Etymology: "dif" from root DIFFERENT; "osten" from root OSTENTATIOUS
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
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
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
Suductocence
Created by: Partario
Pronunciation: soo-duct-oh-sense
Sentence: "She had a particular flair of suductocense about her"
Etymology: Suduction + innocence = suductocence
Distractiview
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: dis-tract-i-view
Sentence: I was distractiviewed from his nose by his strangely enormous hands.
Etymology: distract+view