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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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Visagaffe
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: Vis-ay-gaff
Sentence: Brandon's propensity to visagaffe always left him on the wrong foot in one-to-one negotiations.
Etymology: Visage (expression or countenance) + gaffe (blatant mistake or misjudgement)
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COMMENTS:
Oh, that's clever! - jedijawa, 2007-05-10: 11:44:00
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Cuepid
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: cue-pid
Sentence: Cupid's arrows never came to Rick because he was too cuepid to see that Cindy was giving him her "come hither" look. Thinking she was about to sneeze, he pulled out his H1N1 mask, hand sanitizer and his pocket pack of Lysol before heading toward the bar, leaving her quite puzzled.
Etymology: cue: signal, prompt, hint + stupid: lacking common sense, perception or normal intelligence
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COMMENTS:
cuete word - Nosila, 2009-11-25: 23:06:00
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Unfaciful
Created by: folieadork2
Pronunciation: un/fac/i/ful
Sentence: Unable to read her facial expression, he was unfaciful.
Etymology: un- not faci- face
Kissermisser
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kiss/er/miss/er
Sentence: He confused a smirk for a scowl, fear for friendliness, a grin for a grimace. He was a socially inept kissermisser.
Etymology: kisser + miss
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COMMENTS:
He wouldn't be the Kidderminster kissermisser, would he? - galwaywegian, 2007-05-09: 07:48:00
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Mismugamy
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: miss/mug/amee
Sentence: Mismugamy is the failure to note the true meanings of facial expressions.
Etymology: miss + mug + amy
Deludeface
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dee-lood-ah-fay-ss
Sentence: When Troy deludefaced Mabel she felt like kicking him in the shins.
Etymology: delude (from delusion - false belief or opinion) face (the front part of your head)
Misface
Created by: autophile
Pronunciation: miss-FACE
Sentence: Ever since Myron realized that he misfaced regularly in face-to-faces, his prefered interface space was the clean textual context of instant messaging.
Etymology: "Mis-", prefix meaning bad, wrongly, failure, and "-face" from both "interface" and plain ol' "face".
Misinherpret
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: miss/in/her/pret
Sentence: Todd was one of those guys who was a "legend in his own mind." He believed all the ladies were so into him that they couldn't look at him...sometimes even pretending he didn't exist. He was know to misinherpret the facial expressions once a woman was forced as he was known to stand blocking the doors. Yeah...that was his "best move."He was sure the white as a ghost paleness and the just on the horizon retch meant she was "totally into" him.
Etymology: Derived from the word misinterpret, but only applies to misreading a woman.
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COMMENTS:
like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-09: 13:49:00
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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.
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)
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