Verboticism: Hearhersay
DEFINITION: n. A conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of one-half of a telephone conversation. v. To listen to one-half of a telephone conversation.
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Conversumption
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kon-ver-SUMP-shun
Sentence: After overhearing his boss say that he was going to fire "the corpulent sloth", Bob, unfortunately, made a conversumption and resigned from his position on the day before he was to be promoted.
Etymology: conversation, assumption
Sherlocall
Created by: Acostell
Pronunciation: Sherlock-call
Sentence: Yeah, I played Sherlocall and found out she was getting me that club set for christmas afterall. Score!
Etymology: Sherlock (Holmes) + Call
Telesumption
Created by: blakyoshi7
Pronunciation: te-le-sum-sjon
Sentence: Jenny listend intently on his phonecall from across the room ,and could thus telesume he would take her out to dinner. Unfortunately for him, he had no idea about any such thing...
Etymology: tele - afar assumption - make a conclusion based on limited facts
Cellaknowma
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sell/ah/no/mah
Sentence: His advanced stage of cellaknowma, worsened by listening exclusively to one-sided conversations meant that he always jumped to the wrong conclusion - which was very dangerous on the subway
Etymology: cell + Know + melanoma
Converreact
Created by: Kirubeza
Pronunciation: kohn-ver-ee-akt
Sentence: Having secretly eavesdropped on Melissa's side of her chat with her best friend Jane (about her recently deceased hamster, Toby), Martin completely converreacted and wholeheartedly believed that he was being rejected...
Etymology: Conversation and Overreact mashed together :)
Cellaphoney
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: cell-a-fOn-e
Sentence: Jill hides, listening to a cellaphoney conversation. Thinking her friends refering to her, she storms in, yelling and making a fool of herself.
Etymology: cell phone/ phoney
Semiautism
Created by: pratyushprasan
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
derived from semiotics - pratyushprasan, 2007-01-18: 21:29:00
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Converplation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: con-ver-play-shon
Sentence: Ray's imagination and contemplation mixed with Renna's conversation and became a converplation when he failed to get a clarification of her predication, so he developed a fabrication about elimination when the conversation was a merely a preindication of the eradication of his hamster, Jay.
Etymology: conversation: informal dialogue or discussion + contemplation: cogitation, consideration, deliberation or rumination (don'tcha just love dictionaries?)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent rodentation! - Nosila, 2009-08-21: 12:35:00
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