Verboticism: Buggathatitis

'It's tricky, her knees are pressed together...'

DEFINITION: To overlook or misinterpret non-verbal cues, like body language, which often reveal what a person is truly thinking or feeling.

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Losetrueviewclues

Created by: wysware

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Etymology: lose (miss) true (real) view (on show) clues (information)

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Hormonalyze

Created by: hvhtim

Pronunciation: hor-MOAN-a-lies

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Etymology: hormone, analyze

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Miscorpalinference

Created by: Kevcom2007

Pronunciation: mis/core/pohl/in/fur/ants

Sentence: "Oh my, that was a tight miscorpalinference! I should really think twice about what she's really getting at!"

Etymology: misunderstanding + corpus + inference

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Misvisualization

Created by: Madamemojo

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Cuelessness

Created by: johnnyrockett

Pronunciation: Q-less-ness

Sentence: Although he thought the girl wanted to go home with him, Fred was cueless that when she said she was going to the bathroom, she was actually planning to run out the door.

Etymology: Cue - a hint; intimation; guiding suggestion, lessness - as is cluelessness.

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Dyssexia

Created by: gregbatch

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Inflirtpretation

ubgrud

Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: in-flert-pre-tay-shun

Sentence: I hate going out with John. He inflirtpretates everything I do. It makes me crazy.

Etymology: interpretation + flirt

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Obswerve

Created by: babel

Pronunciation: ob-swerve

Sentence: Jim obswerved that the man with the big knife was smiling at him and decided he must be friendly.

Etymology: observe + swerve

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Indigesture

Created by: jboehnker

Pronunciation: in di jest' yer

Sentence: Bob's tendency towards indigesture struck again as he excitedly waved back to the beautiful woman. Unfortunately she was actually waving to the man standing behind him.

Etymology: indigestion + gesture

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Signullify

bjorn

Created by: bjorn

Pronunciation: sig-nullify

Sentence: His Asperger's caused him to signullify all but the most blunt and painful hints - especially those literally so.

Etymology: signal + nullify

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