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DEFINITION: v. To carefully shave your facial hair into a style which advertises your political allegiance, sexual orientation, or taste in music. n. Stylized facial hair.

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Parliamenthairy

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: parly a ment heree

Sentence: To display his interest in parliamentary procedure, Wilfred grew a very parliamenthairy beard. His motto was "I won't cut my beard until you cut my taxes!" He never missed a session in the public gallery for years and when he died sitting during the Question Period, the Speaker announced that the visitor with the very long bushy beard had just expired and they would have to raise taxes to pay for his funeral...

Etymology: Parliamentary (relating to or having the nature of a parliament;in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly) & Hairy (having or covered with hair)

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Beardilized

Created by: Kenge92

Pronunciation: Bee-ard-ihh-lie-zd

Sentence: Today, while walking down the street, I saw a guy who had a funny looking beard. At first, I thought he just had bad hand eye coordination with a razor. That is until I saw him hug another guy with the exact type of beard- clearly they both Beardilized their faces so they could distinguish them both as homos.

Etymology: Beard- Facial Hair, -ilized: A suffix added to words for fun

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Identigroom

Created by: Filthy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Always careful about the way he presented himself, Mike took great care with his identigrooming; his facial hair had the complex task of communicating that he was, well, a complicated communicator who mows the tall grass, and might just vote independent.

Etymology: identigroom=identity+groom.

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Pubelickface

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: pew blik fay ss

Sentence: you could tell from his oversized tonsure that he was the pubelickface of naughty but nice magazine.

Etymology: public face, errr....

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Unshaveneer

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: un-shave-en-ear

Sentence: She was suspicious of men with large sideburns or beards. To her it was a crafty unshaveneer, a façade behind which they hid their evil intent.

Etymology: unshaven (not shaving one's facial hair) + (a superficial appearance or cover)

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Statushave

Created by: allawson

Pronunciation: Status Shave

Sentence: Alex performs his statushave every morning before work.

Etymology: Somewhere is this large head of mine!

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Depiliticise

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: dee-pihl-IHT-ihs-ize

Sentence: Alex depiliticised to look boho; unfortunately, his date thought he looked more pomo.

Etymology: depiliate (to shave) + politicise

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COMMENTS:

petaj very clever - petaj, 2007-05-02: 23:55:00

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Raveshave

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: rayve/shayve

Sentence: With a clever raveshave and applying glitter, he was able to jump around like a living glow stick

Etymology: rave + shave

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Facescape

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: face-scape

Sentence: Bill was into facescaping as he liked to shave his facial hair into creative patterns reflecting his interests.

Etymology: face + scaping (like landscaping)

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Phairomonize

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: fair - oh - mone - iz

Sentence: John was careful to phairomonize his facial hair so that he gave off the right "vibes".

Etymology: pheromone (a chemical substance that convey information to and produce specific responses in certain animals, Chemicals that act as sexual attractants) hair, harmonize

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Phair enough! - Nosila, 2009-11-18: 23:34:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-02: 01:27:00
Today's definition was suggested by Bulletchewer.
Thank you Bulletchewer! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-02: 02:59:00
Another Verbotomy Splinterview: Jedijawa's Right-Brain Read about it in the Verbotomy Blog.

mplsbohemian - 2007-05-02: 10:58:00
That picture is so disturbing on so many levels.

mplsbohemian - 2007-05-02: 11:01:00
Um, oy, that must have come off so transphobic. :\

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-05-02: 11:11:00
About the picture... I have received a suggestion that this young lady's allegiances are less than clear, so I have prepared an alternative portrait. Please see: Being Clear About our Allegiances. Thanks ~ James

Jabberwocky - 2007-05-02: 12:59:00
Yikes!! the options are even more disturbing - pretty soon she'll look like Chewbacca

purpleartichokes - 2007-05-02: 13:26:00
OMG! It's an American Hairwolf in Toondon! (Or perhaps she has a hairmone problem.)

wordmeister - 2007-05-02: 16:30:00
Chewytobacca? I wonder what JediJawa thinks of that?

Bulletchewer - 2007-05-02: 16:45:00
Always love stirring up debate, but credit's due the artist. For some strange reason forgotten in a dream, I only ever thought of this definition applying to the male of the species...

wordmeister - 2007-05-02: 17:26:00
It appears as if this wampeter definitely needs a waxing!

lumina - 2008-07-17: 00:23:00
OMG! I WON! MY FIRST! EXCITING! Do I get a trophy? ha...what fun. Thanks guys!