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DEFINITION: To smile politely and nod your head while listening to someone, even though you don't understand a word they're saying.
Verboticisms
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Dudsmile
Created by: BellaRina
Pronunciation: Duh-D-Smile
Sentence: HE was so annoying so i put my "DudSmile" on it totally worked
Etymology: Dud (for something to be Fake) Smile(a thing you do to be happy) Dudsmile(a Fake feeling of Happiness)
Huhgree
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ha-gree
Sentence: as the conversation turned to the migration habits of horn-tailed marsupials, i realised i would have to huhgree.
Etymology: huh?, agree
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COMMENTS:
If only it had been about ridge-backed amphibians. Good one! - Kyoti, 2007-08-08: 10:26:00
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Comprefakehend
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: kom-pra-fayk-hend
Sentence: When he noticed that her eyes were starting to cross, her face glazing over almost in a trance-like state, he realized she was comprefakehending again.
Etymology: comprehend + fake
Sminodd
Created by: kellii3
Pronunciation: smi nodd
Sentence: dont you dare sminodd at me !
Etymology: smi - smile nodd - nod
Snodzoeasy
Created by: brimuth
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When it's snodzoeasy to understand foreigners, just use a snodzoeasy and they will be impressed with your apparent grasp of their language.
Etymology:
Glimmernod
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: glim-MER-nod
Sentence: Roxie had not the slightest idea what Bob, a boldrumptious brainwright, was talking about. But she listened, smiling politely from time to time, through what seemed an eternity of this techobane's torture, giving a glimmernod every few minutes.
Etymology: "Glimmer": 1. a slight suggestion or vague understanding. 2. a gleam or shining (like a smile); "nod": the act of nodding the head as a sign of approval, agreement, confirmation..
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COMMENTS:
got my vote! - remistram, 2007-08-08: 09:28:00
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Indeferent
Created by: Friday13th
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She tells : yes, I understand what you mean, but thinks : I'm indeferent about it, I don't want to listen, I just listen to respect you...
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
But person can also ask after telling about something : what do you think about it ? And than she doesn't know what to answer, and she looks like idiot...right ? =) - Friday13th, 2007-08-08: 08:46:00
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Bobbleize
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: bob-bull-eyes
Sentence: Maybe crashing the party wasn't such a good idea afterall. Turns out, it was an awards gala for Slovokian rocket scientists. However, she decided the open bar was worth a little bobbleizing with the guests.
Etymology: To smile and nod, resembling a bobblehead.
Fuddlesmirk
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: FUH-dull-smurk
Sentence: Tanya liked Horace, and he was always kind and neatly dressed, but when he started talking to her passionately about quantum applications of perpetual motion energy theories, she was always forced to fuddlesmirk until he stopped.
Etymology: Fuddle (confuse or perplex) + smirk (fake smile)
Wattapatto
Created by: dancer002013
Pronunciation: what-a-pot-o
Sentence: I was just wattapottoing while she was talking!
Etymology: Japan
