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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.
Verboticisms
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Caveclutch
Created by: kyotonils
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He caveclutched that I was talking to Jen about our relationship when I was actually updating her about my sick hamster.
Etymology: Reaching haphazardly for understanding in a poorly-lit cave.
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
Imaginference
Created by: Filthy
Pronunciation: i-ˈma-jən-fərn(t)s
Sentence: Quite the confabulation artist, Shirley made the imaginference that coffee had caused her daughter's allergy to rats after she overheard snippets of doctors' telephone conversations.
Etymology: imagined [ to form a mental image of (something not present) OR to form a notion of without sufficient basis] + inference [the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former].
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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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)
Auralmixation
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: or/all/mx/ay/shun
Sentence: The auralmixation was understandable considering his predispostion to shredded newspaper
Etymology: aural (percieved by the ear)+ mix (mixed up) + oral fixation
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COMMENTS:
love this one - petaj, 2007-01-21: 03:22:00
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Hemipothesis
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"he-mE-'po-th&-sis/
Sentence: She overheard her boyfriend planning what sounded like a surprise birthday for her, but she tried not to get her hopes up. After all, it was just a hemipothesis.
Etymology: From hemi- + hypothesis.
Conversumption
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kon-ver-SUMP-shun
Sentence: After overhearing his boss say that he was going to fire "the corpulent sloth", Bob, unfortunately, made a conversumption and resigned from his position on the day before he was to be promoted.
Etymology: conversation, assumption
Carvitude
Created by: socks
Pronunciation: carv-i-tude
Sentence: I know now, from yesterday's carvitude, that she's going to drop me!
Etymology:
Comments:
pratyushprasan - 2007-01-18: 21:26:00
nice
Thanks! ~ James
Sending a hamster for a ride at the Wild Water Kingdom? Pretty extreme, don't you think? Bugs and goldfish, maybe....
jrogan - 2009-08-21: 08:19:00
Yes, it is cruel. And it would certainly be a good idea to flush twice. Especially is she's going to do the boyfriend too.
Krishna - 2009-08-25: 02:35:00
Just started