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DEFINITION: To ask someone to look at one thing, when you really want them to look at another thing, which is better left unspecified.
Verboticisms
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Substatraction
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: sub stih track shun
Sentence: girls are very good at substitraction, such as the one in this picture.
Etymology: substitute + attraction
Sawsee
Created by: PeteyPeteMcPetey
Pronunciation: Saw-see
Sentence: He had a long hard sawsee at her lovely 'eyes'.
Etymology: Saw. See. Sawsee. Sounds like saucy. See?
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COMMENTS:
Very clever. - Maureen, 2006-12-29: 21:54:00
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Difostentate
Created by: grammatically
Pronunciation: dif-os-TEN-tate
Sentence: Jim kept trying to difostentate towards his belt when I knew he wanted to show off something else.
Etymology: "dif" from root DIFFERENT; "osten" from root OSTENTATIOUS
Pervoy
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: perv-oi
Sentence: She had a reputation as a pervoyeur, enticing men to view her "charms" by asking them to look at her etchings.
Etymology: purvey (supply, offer) + voyeur (one who enjoys watching especially sexual acts) + perv (colloq. taking a look at someone's physical attractions)
Alterexibition
Created by: seifip
Pronunciation: alter exibition
Sentence: She's alterexibiting her earrings to everyone but strangely, noone notices them. Wasn't it because of her beautiful low cut dress?
Etymology: alternative + exibition
Eyeaside
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: eye - a - side
Sentence: Please come and eyeaside the view from the bathroom while I take a shower.
Etymology: From eye as in to view something and aside to take attention away from an object
Subview
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: sub-viuw
Sentence: Her purple lipstick was an excuse for her to have othen women subview her better parts.
Etymology: sub (under) + view
Diflirticate
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: dy-flur-ti-kate
Sentence: She used her new boots to diflirticate from the shortness of that killer skirt.
Etymology: From "divert", "flirt" and the "icate" bit is for the connotations of "selfish, catty person" (i-cat yes, pretentious, I know). Plus "-icate" is a great suffix for such a compelling verb.
