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DEFINITION: v. To assess an individual's current mental state, or identify hidden personality traits, through careful analysis of their hairstyle. n. A method of psychoanalysis based hairdos and don'ts.
Verboticisms
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Tressicate
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Was she happy? He studied her head and undertook the tressicate test.
Etymology:
Tresstology
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: tress/tol/ogy
Sentence: Having completed his course in tresstology, Bertie Ditherinton knew a bad hair day when he saw one!
Etymology: tress: a lock of hair + ology: the study of
Characthairize
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: kair - ak - tare - ize
Sentence: Lisette had beautiful hair so Phil tended to characthairize her as pleasant, organized and ethical. He believed that Mona was unintelligent and lacking in manners because of her wild and unkept hair. In fact, his hairsessments were erroneous because; of the two women, Mona was the one with integrity, intelligence and loyalty.
Etymology: characterize (describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of), hair
Hairoscopy
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Hair-os-copy
Sentence: I used my super cool hairoscopy skills to determine what type of person you are.
Etymology: Hair + scope
Frizzometer
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: frizz-oh-meet-er
Sentence: Jack looked at Alice and his frizzometer told him that based upon her wildly mused hair she was having a very bad day.
Etymology: frizz (frizzy hair) + o (all inventions from the 50's had o in their title) + meter (to gauge)
Hairalyze
Created by: remkoduursma
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
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COMMENTS:
... - remkoduursma, 2006-12-13: 04:48:00
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Psychiatress
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sigh kai ah tress
Sentence: definately a bad hair day, on so many levels, her psychiatress said in clipped tones
Etymology: psychiatrist tress
Reconnoithair
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: reck/con/noyt/air
Sentence: His job was to reconnoithair the party and alert all incoming males of any signs of PMS.
Etymology: reconnoiter + hair
Comments:
chris - 2006-12-01: 11:32:00
I like 'coiffology'.....
wordmeister - 2006-12-01: 11:49:00
I like hairballogy, but then again I created it. I guess it's lucky we can't vote for our own words...
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Due to popular demand we are changing the voting and scoring rules. Here is how the new setup works:
1. Voting: Each player gets two "plus" Votes (Against votes have been eliminated.)
2. Creativity Points: You get 4 points for creating a word, 4 points for creating a sentence, plus 1 point each for the pronunciation and etymology.
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chris - 2006-12-01: 13:01:00
...good of you to be so objective about things, wordmeister :)
Jabberwocky - 2006-12-01: 13:42:00
I like it alot - sometimes the sentences are better than the words. This will encourage all of us with fragile egos
wordmeister - 2006-12-01: 13:54:00
Check out the revised player standing -- chris and Jabberwocky are neck and neck. This could get vicious! Oh wait... They removed the negative voting. Dang!
ChrisCarrk - 2006-12-01: 15:57:00
it seems menthairity is a really funny word, rock on!
wordmeister - 2006-12-01: 23:39:00
Hey Bjorn, Nice one with 'Salonalysis'. It's from different angle...
splendiction - 2009-07-30: 23:21:00
yes, and Mona (Lisa) has that mysterious smile, too! Excellent word
artipt - 2018-12-03: 19:28:00
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