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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.
Verboticisms
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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
Bewildheard
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: bee - willd - hurd
Sentence: Jeremy was bewilheard after he listened in on Josiah's phone conversation. Because he only heard half of the dialog, he came to some strange conclusions.
Etymology: bewildered, heard
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COMMENTS:
Bewilderado... - Nosila, 2009-08-21: 12:38:00
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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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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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Carvitude
Created by: socks
Pronunciation: carv-i-tude
Sentence: I know now, from yesterday's carvitude, that she's going to drop me!
Etymology:
Assmaker
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: ass-may-kur
Sentence: Wendy, overhearing her mother on the phone, arrived at quite a gory assmaker.
Etymology: from "assume = make an ASS out of U and ME"
Televoxiplation
Created by: MrBlack
Pronunciation: Tel-e-vok-si-play-shun
Sentence: We cater to most of the casual spy arts here; windowatching, earwalling, and televoxiplation
Etymology:
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).
Comments:
pratyushprasan - 2007-01-18: 21:26:00
nice
Verbotomy - 2007-01-18: 21:27:00
Thanks! ~ James
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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