Verboticism: Dyssexia
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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Bodymiss
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: Bo-dy-miss
Sentence: I though she was sending me a kiss, but she was only making a face. I bodymissed her completely.
Etymology: body+miss
Dislegsia
Created by: Fleury
Pronunciation: dis-LEG-see-a
Sentence: Bob suffers from total dislegsia when he tries to read body language
Etymology: dyslexia + leg
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
Inflirtpretation
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
Cluepid
Created by: haroldbarold
Pronunciation: cloo-pid
Sentence: Orville made the cluepid mistake of reading Lola's gag reflex as a sign of encouragement.
Etymology: clue + stupid
Losetrueviewclues
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: lose (miss) true (real) view (on show) clues (information)
Hormonalyze
Created by: hvhtim
Pronunciation: hor-MOAN-a-lies
Sentence:
Etymology: hormone, analyze
