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'Yes, I understand what you mean.'

DEFINITION: To smile politely and nod your head while listening to someone, even though you don't understand a word tbey're saying.

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Smlodding

bailandi

Created by: bailandi

Pronunciation: smull-odding

Sentence: He was speaking to me in Chinese, I understood a little, but mostly I just smlodded as he spoke.

Etymology: A funny sounding combination of smile and nod.

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Nodnumdrum

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: nod/nun/drum

Sentence: My conversation with the computer expert turned into another nodnumdrum on my part. I never understood a word he said, but I am sure my nodding head and direct eye contact convinced him I did.

Etymology: nod + conundrum

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Uhhuhulate

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: uh-HUH-you-late

Sentence: Jim's doctor told him he had sarcosis. "I see," Jim uhhuhulated. "So how many sarcoes do I have?"

Etymology: uh-huh + ululate (to howl or wail, particularly in a pattern of rising and falling inflection)

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - paperhoard, 2007-02-01: 16:23:00

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Yesmannequin

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: YES-man-uh-kin

Sentence: Did you see how Smithers was agreeing with everything the boss said in the meeting? He doesn't know a CMT from a hole in the ground! He's SUCH a yesmannequin!

Etymology: yes-man (one who agrees without question) + mannequin (storefront dummy)

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Vacquiesce

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /"va-kwE-'es/

Sentence: The professor wondered which was worse: the half of the class blatantly ignoring him with their phones and ipods or the other half, full of vacquiescent stares.

Etymology: From vac- (as in "vacuous," "vacant," and "vacuum") and acquiesce

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COMMENTS:

This is an excellent word - chris, 2007-02-01: 11:12:00

Thanks. - ErWenn, 2007-02-01: 17:42:00

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Nodsensical

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: nod/sen/ss/i/cal

Sentence: People loved her becasue she always seemed to agree with them - Her mantra was nodsensical nodsensical nodsensical

Etymology: nod + nonsensical (senseless)

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Nodracking

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: nod/rack/ing

Sentence: She wanted to curtail her plastic smile and nodracking behavior, but she couldn't understand a blinking thing he was saying.

Etymology: variation on nerve-racking: implying a behavior that is exhausting, wearisome, or difficult.

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Meenk

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: mEnk

Sentence: The waiter meenked at us when we gave her our order. Thank goodness we weren't hungry...

Etymology: blink+meek

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Stupnodgrafy

Created by: pandafever

Pronunciation: stoop-nad-grafy

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Nodgreement

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: nod-gree-ment

Sentence: Beth often used nodgreement so that she wouldn't have to admit she didn't understand what people were talking about.

Etymology: nod + agreement

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bailandi bailandi - 2007-02-14: 16:59:00
smlodding