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DEFINITION: v. To have difficulty recognizing, and correctly interpreting, human facial expressions. n. A person who cannot read faces.
Verboticisms
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Wroxpression
Created by: grahaff
Pronunciation: rox presh in
Sentence: The man was such a wroxpression. Whenever he saw someone giggling he would say to them, "What is wrong."
Etymology: wrong (not correct or true) + expression (the look on someone's face that conveys a particular emotion)
Misblunderstand
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Miss-blun-der-stand
Sentence: No wonder Greg never got a girlfriend, whenever he approached a girl he fancied with one of his cheesy chat-up lines, he would completely misblunderstand that a cringe meant 'GO AWAY' and not a smile and a green light to carry on.
Etymology: Blunder (a mistake + Misunderstand (fail to understand correctly) = Misblunderstand
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2008-07-09: 07:10:00
Love it...will use it myself! - Nosila, 2008-07-09: 20:43:00
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Badfacedfrank
Created by: shishkabobb
Pronunciation: (Bad-Faced-Frank)
Sentence: Hey man, you are a badfacedfrank because you couldn't tell that I was sad.
Etymology: Bad-mal Faced- eyes and ears and mouth and nose Frank- a boy's name
Misfacialize
Created by: theguitarman47
Pronunciation: Mis-FAY-shull-ize
Sentence: My girlfriend often slaps me for misfacializing her feelings when she is sad.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
I hope that you are working on better facializing m'dear. - rubysoho, 2009-11-26: 11:05:00
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Invisage
Created by: benjamin
Pronunciation: in-vis-ij
Sentence: Robert invisaged people in all situations; even in bed, he couldn't tell his wife's O-face from here "are we done yet" face.
Etymology: in (prefix meaning not) + visage (face)
Aspergistic
Created by: heb319
Pronunciation: as per ji stic
Sentence: Same was very aspergistic and didn't realize it was bad timing to ask for money when her mother's face was so tight her scrunched eyebrows nearly met her frown.
Etymology: asperger's disorder--one sympton of which is difficulty understanding body language, facial expressions, and social cues.
Struggrin
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: STRUG-grin
Sentence: Ever since half our team got put on Prozac, I've been struggrin to figger out whether someone is actually smiling, or just reacting to his altered brain chemistry.
Etymology: struggle, grin
Winceblind
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: WINCE-BLIND
Sentence: Paul regaled his dinner date with an endless succession of irrelevant anecdotes,childish jokes and lewd comments. Being congenitally WINCEBLIND,he mistook Bab's expressions of terminal boredom and abject horror as sultry approval and scampish encouragement.
Etymology: WINCE-to grimace BLIND-unable to see that one has NO chance with the opposite sex.
Unfaciful
Created by: folieadork2
Pronunciation: un/fac/i/ful
Sentence: Unable to read her facial expression, he was unfaciful.
Etymology: un- not faci- face
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "I, Row-Boat", where a sentient, and very sensitive Row-Boat has some difficulty reading a woman's facial expressions. See the full story in Overclocked. Thank you Cory! ~ James
MIENBLIND is very good- and far more cerebral than my entry. Good work, Ozziebob.
MaybeLater_x - 2008-08-19: 19:10:00
Visagenary is also a play on Imaginary, nay?
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James
ldikarev - 2012-09-06: 16:44:00
ldikarev - 2012-09-06: 16:45:00
Prosopagnosia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia (Greek: "prosopon" = "face", "agnosia" = "not knowing") is a disorder of fa