Verboticism: Rephewsal

'Wow, you're hot! No thank you.'

DEFINITION: To reject a compliment. May indicate low self-esteem, or false modesty, or even a psychopathic aversion to flattery.

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Rephewsal

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ree feuu zal

Sentence: Her rephewsals caused even more jaw dropping than her entrances, leading the men to assume that she would be more at a convent than the convention.

Etymology: refusal, phew!

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