Verboticism: Tresstest
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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Hairedity
Created by: Kevcom2007
Pronunciation: hair/ed/it/ee
Sentence: Her hairedity is terrible today!
Etymology: Hair + (Her)edity
Infurpretate
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: in-fir-pre-tate
Sentence: When interviewing folks for new postitions the recruiter typically delved kno further than his infurpretation
Etymology: Fur + interpretation
Rapuzzle
Created by: dekra
Pronunciation: rah-puzzle
Sentence: She presented a new attitude every, with the same golden smile, but a very different rapuzzle. They would watch her from the office window, changing the the tone of their greetings and timbre of their voices based on the level of frizzy topography her locks presented.
Etymology: Rapunzel(Classic fairy tale character with long golden hair) + Puzzle
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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Categhairise
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: cat-egg-hayr-ize
Sentence: Sebastian's ability to categhairise people accurately (even if bald) had usually kept him out of ha(i)rm's way.
Etymology: categorise + hair
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
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".
Tressicate
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Was she happy? He studied her head and undertook the tressicate test.
Etymology:
