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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.
Verboticisms
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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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COMMENTS:
Phair enough! - Nosila, 2009-11-18: 23:34:00
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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
Vincentvangoghtee
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: vin/cent/van/goa/tee
Sentence: The commune of artists all sported vincentvangoghtees out of reverence for their muse.
Etymology: Vincent Van Gogh + goatee
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COMMENTS:
I won't ear of it. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-17: 06:48:00
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Associstache
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: a-so-sis-tash
Sentence: "How did you know she was a lesbian?" "Well, she's got an associstache...."
Etymology: associate + mustache
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COMMENTS:
nuff said there...good laugh on this one! - mana1066, 2007-05-06: 22:53:00
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Moustance
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: muhs-tance
Sentence: Judging by her moustance, she's lookin' for some romance with a lady who can break dance.
Etymology: Moustache + Stance
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COMMENTS:
Alternative pronunciations make me think of "compulsion to move the body in time to music" and "an example from or fleeting moment in the life of a rodent". As such, the word kicks ass and gets my vote. - Bulletchewer, 2007-05-02: 16:49:00
Nice! - HubbMU, 2007-05-03: 12:50:00
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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.
Stubbelong
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: STUB eh long
Sentence: Her upper lip advertised that she stubbelonged to that group of women who stridently declare that they DON'T CARE how they look to others, particularly men, whom they claim they DON'T NEED OR WANT. But the real reason they don't have any men around is that they can't get any men to look at them without gagging a little bit.
Etymology: stubble + belong
Varcillate
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: var' cill ate
Sentence: The big M on the back of his head varcillates his preference for the Mavericks.
Etymology: var - variance cillate - hair
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COMMENTS:
Hubbie made this one up. Not too bad I say. - texmom, 2007-05-09: 22:00:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Bulletchewer.
Thank you Bulletchewer! ~ James
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. :\
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!