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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.
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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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Overhearesy
Created by: Mirandala
Pronunciation: oh-ver-hee'-re-see
Sentence: When Jack secretly listened to Sharon's phone call and concluded that she was having an affair, but that was just overhearesy.
Etymology: overheard + heresy
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COMMENTS:
Well, I would have prefered overheresay, but I always prefer old english pronounciations =) You get a point anyway, it's a cool word! - allwise, 2007-01-18: 03:45:00
Well, I would have prefered overheresay, but I always prefer old english pronounciations =) You get a point anyway, it's a cool word! - allwise, 2007-01-18: 03:46:00
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Oneversation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: wənvərsāshən
Sentence: According to the oneversation Jill was either planning a surprise party for her friend Nicky or the covert overthrow of Nicaragua though the latter would seem less complicated.
Etymology: one (the lowest cardinal number; half of two) + conversation (the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words)
Thankies
Created by: onceinabluemoon88
Pronunciation: thank - seas
Sentence: thankies for that pencil
Etymology:
Semilusion
Created by: crissxross
Pronunciation: semiloozhun
Sentence: I came to the semilusion that her father's a pre-teen. Isn't in vitro fertilization amazing?
Etymology: semi + conclusion
Misconstreevesdrop
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: miss con str eeves drop
Sentence: Danny always had one ear on someone else's conversation to the point that he was known as the office misconstreevesdropper.
Etymology: from misconstrue and eavesdropping
Conflusion
Created by: riflesandkids74
Pronunciation: cahn-floo-shun
Sentence: "If you would really listen to me, we could easily avoid such conflusion."
Etymology: confuse + conclusion
Hearhersay
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: heer hur say
Sentence: Phonecia talked to her friends and relations constantly on the phone. George, who had neither friends nor relations, could not do the same. Therefore he tended to listen in on those half conversations and got his exercise jumping to conclusions. He always incorrectly assumed they were discussing him. He was half right. Especially the night he overheard Phonecia talking to her cousin, Vinny, who was an exterminator. Although it was hearhersay, George was pretty sure the pest control solution was meant for him. And he was right...RAID!
Etymology: Hearsay (heard through another rather than directly;gossip;assumption) & Hear Her Say (Hear a woman say, as opposed to hear what she hears).
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].
Semicryptology
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: sem-eye-cript-AHL-oh-gee
Sentence: Jim looked up as his wife hung up the phone. "What time," he sighed semicryptologically, "is your mother coming for dinner?"
Etymology: semi + cryptology
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
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