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DEFINITION: n. Redundant and often clumsy preparations made before meeting with a "professional" -- like a hairdresser, dentist or cleaning lady. v. To prepare for a meeting with a professional by trying to hide the fact that you desperately need their services.
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Madeservice
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mayd ser vis
Sentence: Jorge & Beth had their very own madeservice. The day that the home cleaners were due, they would scrub their house from top to bottom to show those strangers how clean they were...it was a redumbdant effort, which also cost them a fortune!
Etymology: Maid Service (home cleaning paid to others to do) & Made (to make oneself)
Nervicecall
Created by: Nuwanda
Pronunciation: Nur-vis-call
Sentence: "They've seen it all" I kept telling myself as I frantically added bromide to the hot tub and scrubbed at the scum ring along the top. My husband, while taunting me for my extensive preparations for the nervicecall from the spa guy, was spotted surreptiously hosing out the filter.
Etymology: Service call combined with nervous.
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COMMENTS:
LOL! Too funny :) It makes a LOT of sense! You have my vote! - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-26: 16:38:00
This is so very clever!! - mweinmann, 2009-03-26: 17:17:00
Good! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-26: 21:16:00
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Anticipurge
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: an-tis-i-purge
Sentence: Harry was horrified when he got to work and realized that the housekeeper was coming to clean his apartment today and he had forgotten to anticipurge the girly magazines from the bathroom.
Etymology: anticipate -- get ready, prepare, purge -- cleanse, purify
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-26: 09:29:00
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-26: 12:32:00
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Fauxlishness
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: foh-lihsh-nehs
Sentence: Fulvia's life was full of fauxlishness. Not only did she dye her roots before going to the hairdressers and blame the Care Bears for her immaculate house when the cleaning lady arrived, but she had two dentists and two spiritual confessors in two different cities.
Etymology: Using FAUX, meaning fake or artificial + a play on FOOLISHNESS, meaning a lack of good sense or judgement
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COMMENTS:
heheh - galwaywegian, 2009-03-26: 08:55:00
Funny! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-26: 09:21:00
Excellent word! - splendiction, 2009-03-26: 21:17:00
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Prephairedness
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: prep hair ed ness
Sentence: Tressa had touched up her roots and trimmed her bangs the night before. She showered and shampooed her hair three times that morning. She then blew dry her hair with a rolling brush, styled her hair with mousse and curled it with her curling iron. After spending three hours doing her hair, she declared a state of prephairedness and she rushed out of the house to get to her 10:00 am hair appointment. When her stylist saw the roots and her bangs, she asked who had done this to her hair. She replied, "Why, you did!" Little did she know that hair stylists have forensic skills and after intense questioning, our client broke down and admitted her desperation. Her stylist said, "Why Tressa of the Ubervilles, all you had to do was make your appointment a few days sooner!"
Etymology: preparedness(the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action) & Hair (any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal;dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss)
Preproprep
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: prēprōprep
Sentence: Mitch has a very busy life. That’s why he regularly calls on professionals to handle some of the tasks that others usually handle themselves. The only problem with that is that he doesn’t want to let anybody know how messy he is, so he will preproprep before going to a carwash, hair dresser, or have a cleaning service in.
Etymology: pre (before) + pro (professional) + prep (make ready)
Fakeitz
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: fake-its
Sentence: Buffy would often rush her husband, Biffy to clean before the maid arrived, and he would snarl and call her a fakeitz, for not allowing anyone to see the real way they lived.
Etymology: Fake- It-
Forexperfix
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: four-x-per-fix
Sentence: Trudie forexperfixed her house right before the cleaning lady came, and soon realized that after her cleaning lady finished, her house seemed dirtier than before.
Etymology: fore + expert + fix
Redundental
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ri-duhn-den-tl
Sentence: Tim did such a job of preparing for his tooth cleaning that his visit was largely redundental.
Etymology: redundant (being in excess; exceeding what is usual or natural) + dental (of or pertaining to dentistry or a dentist)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by nosila. Thank you nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by nosila. Thank you nosila. ~ James
I love this definition - it's so true!
RaunakThomas - 2013-07-27: 10:56:00
ROFL
Petrikreink - 2018-10-08: 12:54:00
What nice phrase
Svetikreink - 2018-10-10: 21:00:00