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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.
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Fishingleer
Created by: bohdel
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She used a fishingleer to pick up guys at the bar. "Just look at how I spilt this on my shirt," she'd say, "I'll never be able to wear it again."
Etymology:
Eyepopping
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: ipopping
Sentence: your hanging earrings are eyepopping big
Etymology: if you see something your eyes don“t believe seeing
Suductocence
Created by: Partario
Pronunciation: soo-duct-oh-sense
Sentence: "She had a particular flair of suductocense about her"
Etymology: Suduction + innocence = suductocence
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
Narcissulate
Created by: sarrah
Pronunciation: nar-siss-you-late
Sentence: He was narcissulating strongly towards the lamppost, but I knew he really wanted me to check out his new car.
Etymology: narcissism
Diviewsion
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: die-view-zhun
Sentence: Claire asked John to see if she had a loose seam on the back of her blue jeans, but it was really a diviewsion.
Etymology: diversion, view
Intituate
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: in-tit-you-ate
Sentence: She was intituating him in that low cut dress, no matter how purple her hair was.
Etymology: Insinuate+tit