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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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Overlesson

ubgrud

Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: ov-er-less-on

Sentence: "It's just so matted," she said, stroking the carpet with her foot. "She hates my hair," I overlessoned.

Etymology: overlisten, lesson

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Telephelony

Created by: omista

Pronunciation: tela-fela-nE

Sentence: steven, who barely ever listens, jumped to conclusions by commiting another act of telephelony

Etymology: telephone + felony

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COMMENTS:

Sounds like Steven relies on telephelony (i.e. he only half-listens) 100% of the time. - wordmeister, 2007-01-18: 07:53:00

haha, thats a very good one - ToblerOne, 2007-01-18: 10:21:00

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Ringference

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ring-fer-ents

Sentence: Her ringference that Bob was planning a holiday to Peru was all wrong. He was actually dumping her for her ex-best-friend, Prue.

Etymology: ring (call on the telephone) + infer (conclude)

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COMMENTS:

great words petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-01-18: 10:54:00

petaj Tanks mulchy er.. thanks muchly. - petaj, 2007-01-21: 03:19:00

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Eavesduction

Created by: PolishedAmethyst

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Jake made an eavesduction while his wife was talking to his sister in the kitchen. He immediately started making plans around what he thought was his own surprise party.

Etymology: Eavesdrop, deduction

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COMMENTS:

This is my very first entry, so please go easy on me...thanks. :) - PolishedAmethyst, 2007-01-18: 00:56:00

A clever one! - wordmeister, 2007-01-18: 01:04:00

Thank you! You made my day. :) - PolishedAmethyst, 2007-01-18: 01:24:00

Good one, I voted for it. - kyotonils, 2007-01-18: 02:39:00

Most excellent ... well done. - egonschiela, 2007-01-18: 10:34:00

Thank you kyotonils and egonschiela :) - PolishedAmethyst, 2007-01-21: 03:23:00

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Telesumption

Created by: allwise

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

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Thankies

Created by: onceinabluemoon88

Pronunciation: thank - seas

Sentence: thankies for that pencil

Etymology:

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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.

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Convusion

Created by: egonschiela

Pronunciation: con-vue-zhun

Sentence: Jeremy's convusion was heightened by the fact that his girlfriend's toothbrush was missing ...

Etymology: conv (ersation) + (conf) usion

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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].

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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:

petaj love this one - petaj, 2007-01-21: 03:22:00

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Comments:

pratyushprasan - 2007-01-18: 21:26:00
nice

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-01-18: 21:27:00
Thanks! ~ James

mrskellyscl mrskellyscl - 2009-08-21: 07:18:00
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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