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DEFINITION: v., To yawn or sigh repeatedly in an effort to subtly communicate one's lack of interest in the current conversation. n., A series of long, exasperated, and often escalating sighs indicating extreme boredom.
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Sighlanguage
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sīlanggwij
Sentence: Bill used his best sighlanguage to try to communicate his boredom but his buddy droned on and on about his new hobby. Who knew that people could create artwork from dryer lint?
Etymology: sigh (emit a long, deep, audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness) + language (the method of human communication) a play on sign language
Conversightion
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: con-ver-sy-shun
Sentence: Gordon yawned several times to let Melinda know that talking about her back pain was a boring conversightion to him.
Etymology: conversation + sigh
Boryawnagain
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Bore-yorn-a-gayn
Sentence: When Sue began to witter on for the tenth time about the new luxury hot tub she had recently purchased, Rob started the usual boryawnagain stance. He repeatedly shifted from one foot to the other and pretended to yawn in an attempt to silence the woman. But there was no stopping her, so eventually he just had to nod his head in agreement to everything she said, while his thoughts turned to things much more interesting, like what he would be having for dinner later.
Etymology: Bore(cause to feel weary and uninterested by being dull or tedious) + Yawn(open one's mouth wide and inhale deeply due to tiredness or boredom) + Again(repeat) = Boryawnagain
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COMMENTS:
this encompasses everything - good one - Jabberwocky, 2008-09-09: 11:27:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2008-09-09: 18:55:00
very clever - OZZIEBOB, 2008-09-10: 06:55:00
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Lassisnooze
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: lass-i-snooze
Sentence: Carole had long passed napathy and was now deeply lassisnoozing through the presentation.
Etymology: lassitude + snooze
Intoredom
Created by: deaninc
Pronunciation: int-o-re-dom
Sentence: the intoredom of the subject is pointless
Etymology: To show an interest in the involvement of persons yet unimpressed by their verbage
Passagyawner
Created by: ajnemajrje
Pronunciation: Pass-AG-yahner
Sentence: John is such a passagyawner; whenever I speak he starts yawning to let me know hes bored of the conversation.
Etymology: Contraction of PASS(ive) + AGG(ressive) + YAWNER
Sighgnal
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: si-gnal
Sentence: As Andrea droned on about her film class, Mark began to drift. he sighgnaled her repeatedly but she, rapt in her subject, was undeterred. Mark's subtle napathy was ignored. napathy: to pretend to sleep in an attempt to signal disinterest.
Etymology: sigh + (si)gnal
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COMMENTS:
we must both be napathetic - Jabberwocky, 2007-10-15: 15:55:00
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Uvulate
Created by: verbony
Pronunciation: ewe-view-late
Sentence: The fertilty doctor's explanation of the invitro procedure really made me uvulate.
Etymology: uvula+suff. ate
Yawnerate
Created by: Juny1
Pronunciation: yawn-ur-ate
Sentence: While reading the newspaper, I could not stop yawnerating there was nothing interesting to read.
Etymology:
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram and Pseudonym. Were you two talking to each other when this idea popped into your heads? Thank you remistram and Pseudonym! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Pseudonym. Thank you Pseudonym. ~ James