Verboticism: Coiffenalysis
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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Prostyling
Created by: kdhills
Pronunciation: Pro-Stie-ling
Sentence: The TSA has come under fire in recent weeks for the supposedly prostyling travelers and administering unnecessary secondary screenings.
Etymology: Profiling + Styling
Characthairize
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kair - ak - tare - ize
Sentence: Lisette had beautiful hair so Phil tended to characthairize her as pleasant, organized and ethical. He believed that Mona was unintelligent and lacking in manners because of her wild and unkept hair. In fact, his hairsessments were erroneous because; of the two women, Mona was the one with integrity, intelligence and loyalty.
Etymology: characterize (describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of), hair
Tresstimate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: tress-te-mayt
Sentence: as she walked in the room it was clear that 90% of the people there had already started tresstimating her abilities
Etymology: tress, estimate
Doodify
Created by: Coolfool
Pronunciation: Doo + defy
Sentence: After one look at Janey this morning, I doodified that she probably didn't even make it home last night, and she wasn't the one to ask favors from today.
Etymology: Doo, from her (hair)do, dify from identify.
Ponytelltale
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: poh-nee-el-teyl
Sentence: Anne is usually quite meticulous with her appearance. She spends a fair amount of time in the morning getting her hair just right. It doesn't require tips from Sigmund Freud to pick out her bad-mood days. The ponytelltale sends co-workers scurrying in every direction but in her path. If all she has done is cram her locks into a scrunchie the world better look out.
Etymology: ponytail (an arrangement of the hair in a long lock drawn tightly against the back of the head and cinched so as to hang loosely) + telltale (a thing serving to reveal or disclose something)
Knottipathetic
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: not-tee-pah-theh-tik
Sentence: Roger figured he'd use his knottipathetic skills to get ahead at work. (He learned all about it on the internet during knotworking breaks.) But when he misdiagnosed his boss's bed-head as a subliminal invitation to get kinky, he ended up losing more than his hair.
Etymology: knot + pathy
Coiffid
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: cwaff-id
Sentence: My gosh! James must be going through a hard time if his coiffid is any indication. I've never seen a cowlick quite like that one.
Etymology: coiffe - hairdo id - freud re. basic needs
Hairoscopy
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Hair-os-copy
Sentence: I used my super cool hairoscopy skills to determine what type of person you are.
Etymology: Hair + scope