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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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Vaguecilate
Created by: marnee4nothin
Pronunciation: vaeg-si-laet
Sentence: Lilly would vaguecilate whenever George spoke to her about engines.
Etymology: vague + vacilate
Wattapatto
Created by: dancer002013
Pronunciation: what-a-pot-o
Sentence: I was just wattapottoing while she was talking!
Etymology: Japan
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)
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)
Affairmy
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: a-fare-me
Sentence: Titania was often accused of being away with the fairies. Little did they know that she actually was a real life fairy. They thought she was just affairmying.
Etymology: affirm + fairy (as in away with the fairies)
Blunderstand
Created by: Gionuzzo
Pronunciation: BLUN der stand
Sentence: Kelly blunderstanded what her husband was saying to her about their upcoming vaction. Unfortunately, she ended up agreeing to give her left arm to charity on the way there.
Etymology: blunder + understand
Bafflirmation
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: baff + ler + may + shun
Sentence: I never know what she's talking about, but bafflirmations keep me out of trouble.
Etymology: baffle + affirmation
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.
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
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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