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DEFINITION: To smile politely and nod your head while listening to someone, even though you don't understand a word tbey're saying.

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Guessticulate

Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: gess-tick-yoo-late

Sentence: Despite not speaking Spanish, Jenny would guessticulate to assure Carlos she did comprende!

Etymology: From "guess" and "gesticulate". You know it makes sense.

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Eastindiandeaf

Created by: josje

Pronunciation:

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Nodderdodder

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: nod er dod er

Sentence: Elizabeth was away with the fairies, always a nodderdodder and not quite listening or understanding the situation.

Etymology: from nod and dodder just like my gran does, dodders around nodding along like everything is understood even when it isn't.

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Hmmming

Created by: Psychicsi

Pronunciation: hmmm-ing

Sentence: Bonnie mistook the Chelsea League for Undertakers and Buryers (C.L.U.B) for a club and spent the whole night hmmming.

Etymology: From Hmmm, that sound we make to suggest we are paying attention and understand someone talking to us, which strangley is always taken to be the most appropriate response.

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COMMENTS:

Hmmmm.... Was this some kind of underground club? - wordmeister, 2007-02-01: 16:05:00

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Nodnumdrum

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: nod/nun/drum

Sentence: My conversation with the computer expert turned into another nodnumdrum on my part. I never understood a word he said, but I am sure my nodding head and direct eye contact convinced him I did.

Etymology: nod + conundrum

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Blondiction

Created by: Computergeek

Pronunciation: blonde-diction

Sentence: Jane experienced blondiction when speaking with an activist

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Vacquiesce

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /"va-kwE-'es/

Sentence: The professor wondered which was worse: the half of the class blatantly ignoring him with their phones and ipods or the other half, full of vacquiescent stares.

Etymology: From vac- (as in "vacuous," "vacant," and "vacuum") and acquiesce

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COMMENTS:

This is an excellent word - chris, 2007-02-01: 11:12:00

Thanks. - ErWenn, 2007-02-01: 17:42:00

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