Verboticism: Tressstressomerty
DEFINITION: v. To assess an individual's current mental state, or identify hidden personality traits, through careful analysis of their hairstyle. n. A method of psychoanalysis based hairdos and don'ts.
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Afronalysis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: afrōnaləsis
Sentence: People could tell Latonya\'s mood by a simple process of afronalysis. If her afro is brushed and picked out she was feeling fine. If it is flat, things were not so good. If she is wearing a baseball cap everybody better stay clear. The technique fell completely apart the day she showed up with a buzz cut.
Etymology: Afro (a thick hairstyle with very tight curls that sticks out all around the head, like the natural hair of some black people) + analysis (a system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders)
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COMMENTS:
yes the definition leaves out the bald! Good word! - splendiction, 2009-07-30: 23:20:00
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Trichoanalysis
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: try-co-a-nal-a-sis
Sentence: Sven gave up his psychology course for hairdressing, but still liked to analyse his customers. He called it trichoanalysis
Etymology: trich (prefix meaning hair or thread) + psychoanalysis (you know what that is)
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COMMENTS:
Somehow I stumbled over this old one and had to have a go. - petaj, 2007-03-07: 03:28:00
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Frizzometer
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: frizz-oh-meet-er
Sentence: Jack looked at Alice and his frizzometer told him that based upon her wildly mused hair she was having a very bad day.
Etymology: frizz (frizzy hair) + o (all inventions from the 50's had o in their title) + meter (to gauge)
Menthairity
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: Ment-hair-it-ee
Sentence: Her menthairity was all wrong today.
Etymology: Mentality+hair
Coiffenalysis
Created by: andystephenson
Pronunciation: kwaf-nalli-sis
Sentence: I performed a quick coiffenalysis and realised that she was in a very bad mood.
Etymology: Coiffure + analysis
Folifrazycology
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: folly-fraz-e-cology
Sentence: Using folifrazycolgy, we were able to determine that Ken was a lazy individual.
Etymology: folicle-frazzle-psycology
Coiffolgy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: kwah/off/ol/uh/gy
Sentence: Fortunately, he was a recent graduate of coiffolgy 101 and kept a low profile when she entered the room.
Etymology: coiffure + ology
Frizzalysis
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: Friz-al-ie-sis
Sentence: Rigourous Frizzalysis indicates that 'a bad hair day is worth two in the bush', so to speak, ahem.
Etymology: Entangling of 1)Frizz - wild or uncontrolable hair (informal) and 2) Analysis - nothing whatever to do with the rectum, usually.
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COMMENTS:
frizztastic! - jrogan, 2009-07-30: 09:00:00
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Tressomancy
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: tre-suh-man-see
Sentence: I tried to look aloof but she was using the dark powers of tressomancy to divine my true feelings.
Etymology: From MANCY which means "divination by means of" and TRESS which means "hair".
