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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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Fooltalk
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: fool talk
Sentence: She's excellent at fooltalking guys ;)
Etymology: fool + talk
Sublure
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: Sub-lour
Sentence: The woman was playing him for stupid, making sure he wasn't aware of her tactics to sublure him.
Etymology: The prefix sub- + the word lure
Glancedancing
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: glance dancing
Sentence: At the company picnic, Jane got guys to go glancedancing at her butt by bending over and pointing out weeds in the lawn.
Etymology: glance, dance
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.
Misdiracktion
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: miss-die-rack-shun
Sentence: his eyes were drawn inevitably downward in what was a stunning piece of misdiracktion
Etymology: misdirection, rack
Misdirbreastion
Created by: bondfool
Pronunciation: Mis-dur-breh-shtyun
Sentence: She tried using misdirbreastion on me, but I knew what she wanted me to see.
Etymology:
Lookothere
Created by: timmy
Pronunciation: Look o there
Sentence: Lookothere now!
Etymology:
Gapeshifting
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Gayp-shif-ting
Sentence: I gapeshifted Tom to look across the street at the drug store so he would see the couple fighting on the street.
Etymology: Gape - to stare with open mouth, as in wonder. Shifting - To move or transfer from one place or position to another.
Plexiview
Created by: ancientSept
Pronunciation: plex-e-vee-yoo
Sentence: She asked him to plexiview her earrings.
Etymology: PLexiglas and view!
