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DEFINITION: A conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of, one-half of a telephone conversation.
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Hictomagnet
Created by: dancer002013
Pronunciation: hic-toe-mag-net
Sentence: She didnt understand the hictomagnet.
Etymology: German
Summaringzation
Created by: Kyoti
Pronunciation: Sum-uh-ring-ZAY-shun
Sentence: While Stacy chatted with her sister about houseplants and casserole recipes, Zebediah came to the summaringzation that his tuxedo phobia might interfere with what sounded a lot like wedding plans.
Etymology: Summarize + ring + realization
Eavesdropduction
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: eves-drop-duction
Sentence: Eve was a naughty girl who like to drop suggestive words into her telephone conversations because she loved to see Adam's reactions to his eavesdropductions.
Etymology: eavesdrop + deduction
Evesdropping
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eeevez drop ping
Sentence: adam was constantly evesdroping, so eventually his worst nightmare came true and ironically, he thought she was booking a colonic at the time.
Etymology: eavesdropping, Eve's dropping.
Overherring
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: oh-vur-hair-ring
Sentence: Sue inadvertently threw Bob an overherring when he heard her say to the caller that she "hated him", not knowing she was referring to her boss.
Etymology: overhear, red herring
Pshyconclusion
Created by: Rossco
Pronunciation: Sigh-con-Cloo-shun
Sentence: After apologising for his comments at dinner, Charlie explained that he had come to a premature psyconlusion
Etymology: Psycic + Conclusion
Converassion
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: con-vur-ash-un
Sentence: After hearing her on the telephone with her friend, he had come to the converassion that she had participated in a 2- to 3-hour whirlwind affair in a pastel-pink shower, involving lots of oil, lotion and 10 women, plus one who was "quite a bit rounder around her belly."
Etymology: conversation + ass (for assume, and for what the eavesdropper looks like once confronting the converser with their outlandish assumption)
Tinglewit
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: tingl-wit
Sentence: Jumping to conclusions seldom makes happy landings, but after chancing upon Roxie's crossline, uniprateral palaver with her girlfriend, Bob's tinglewit told him that he and Roxie were incompratible.
Etymology: Tingle(tinkle): A slang term to "call by telephone" as in the expression, "give someone a tingle". Wit: mind, understanding, good judgement. (Although it seems Bob's mind may not have been getting the right "tingles", and he was using only half of his wit
Surmoiety
Created by: tatterdemalion
Pronunciation: sur-MOI-i-tee
Sentence: Jack's surmoiety left him hurrying to the hospital after he thought he overheard his friend talking about their friend, Herb, having an bad accident, only to find out that his friend was only talking about "Herbie," his wife's VW Beetle.
Etymology: surmise + moiety (Middle English for "half")
