Verboticism: Assmaker
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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Onedering
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: wun-duh-ring
Sentence: Whenever she rang her ex, Paul would hover behind her, obsessively onedering what they were talking about.
Etymology: one + wonder + ring (to 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
Convusion
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: con-vue-zhun
Sentence: Jeremy's convusion was heightened by the fact that his girlfriend's toothbrush was missing ...
Etymology: conv (ersation) + (conf) usion
Miscallculation
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: miss-call-cue-lay-shun
Sentence: he burst out of the bedroom wearing nothing but a christmas hat only to find her whole family in the room sipping warm cocoa....obviously he'd made a massive miscallculation
Etymology: call, miscalculation
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COMMENTS:
This part is just perfect for Hugh Grant ... lovely! - egonschiela, 2007-01-18: 10:36:00
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Eavesdecision
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: e-vs-duc-sis-e-on
Sentence: After the call he eavesdecided he needed to get out and excersize more.
Etymology: eavesdrop + decision
Hemisneer
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: hem-eh-sneer
Sentence: Willard would often listen to his wife Wanda as she would chat with her pals on the phone and more often than not he would hemisneer at what he perceived the gist of the conversation to be.
Etymology: Blend of prefix 'hemi' (half) and 'sneer' ( smile or speak in a contemptuous or mocking manner)
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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Semilusion
Created by: crissxross
Pronunciation: semiloozhun
Sentence: I came to the semilusion that her father's a pre-teen. Isn't in vitro fertilization amazing?
Etymology: semi + conclusion
Tellhalfonehear
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tel haf fone heer
Sentence: Sid usually got the gists of telephone conversations he heard wrong. He would tellhalfonehear one thing when the opposite was actually what was said.
Etymology: Telephone (transmitting speech at a distance) & Teel (say) & Half (partially) & Hear (listen/pay attention)
