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DEFINITION: v. To steal a look at your reflection in a window, mirror or other reflective surface; often done furtively so not to be seen as vain. n. A reflected image which is distorted by vanity.
Verboticisms
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Circumpeek
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sur-kuhm-peek
Sentence: Julie doesn't want to be viewed as vane but loves to circumpeek at her reflection in any shiny surface she can find.
Etymology: circumspect (cautious, discreet) + peek (sneaked look)
Arroglance
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: ar-ro-glance
Sentence: David took a arroglance at himself in the car mirror, not to check the tailgater, but to make sure his hair is perfect.
Etymology: arrogance, as in vane/glance
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COMMENTS:
wow! clever word! - wordmeister, 2007-04-13: 11:29:00
you can add one more word to your etymolgy (arrow)- really hits the target - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-13: 11:45:00
I like it! - jedijawa, 2007-04-13: 12:32:00
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Likenessmonsters
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lyke ness mon stirs
Sentence: Young Bonnie was a canny lass. She was gorgeous and knew it. She threw it in the faces of all her suitors, playing one against another....Angus, Jock, Duncan and Alistair. When the lads met for a pint in their local and started comparing notes, as only lads do, they discovered she had fooled them all with her beauty and need for acknowledgement of her famed vanity. She had left no mirror ungazed upon, no window unlooked at and no other shiny surfaces unobserved. That is when they decided that Bonnie, not Nessie, became all the Likenessmonsters of their lonely lives.
Etymology: Likeness (picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing;similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things); Loch Ness Monsters (large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland, plural: more than one)
Furtivanity
Created by: WhiteRhino
Pronunciation: Fur-tiv-an-ity
Sentence: He glanced with furtivanity at his gorgeous reflexion. Hey there, you handsome devil.
Etymology: Futive and vanity
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COMMENTS:
Nice one. I approve. - PythianHabenero, 2007-04-14: 15:26:00
Haha Dan, way to talk about yourself in the third person for your sentence. You're not fooling anyone:) - playdohheart, 2007-04-18: 06:26:00
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Windowcopping
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: win doh kop ping
Sentence: har penchant for windowcopping was discovered when she spent fifteen minutes ogling over some vetinerary products next door to a shoe shop.
Etymology: window shopping, copping a glance
Slideview
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: slide/vew
Sentence: A quick slideview indicated just how gorgeous she really was - too bad it was right before she walked into a concrete wall and broke her nose
Etymology: slide + sideview
Windowcopping
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: winn doe kop ping
Sentence: she windowcopped her way down high street and assured herself she looked great, but, having stepped in three different sample of dog excrement while checking herself out, she didn't smell really as good!
Etymology: window-shopping, copping a look.
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COMMENTS:
very funny galwaywegian - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-13: 10:00:00
I like that! - jedijawa, 2007-04-13: 12:34:00
funny! - wordmeister, 2007-04-13: 23:15:00
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Flurt
Created by: mac33
Pronunciation: flurt
Sentence: While Danny was proposing, Karen was flurting with his glasses.
Etymology: flirt + furtive - to flirt furtively with the mirror
Glimpsneak
Created by: LonePaladin
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As she passed by the cars in the mall's parking lot, she couldn't help glimpsneaking in their side mirrors.
Etymology: 'glimpse' + 'sneak'
Stealthreflection
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: stellth-ree-flek-shun
Sentence: Maria was a master at stealthreflection, seizing every shopportunity to surreptitiously glance at her image in the frozen food and dairy cases.
Etymology: stealth, self-reflection
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COMMENTS:
Maria's eyes would glaze over shopping for bathroom fittings. - petaj, 2007-04-13: 04:45:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by pinwheel.
Thank you pinwheel! ~ James
If she's even using the cutlery, then the perception is hardly false -- but full marks for persistence. It's hard to look hot in the warped reflection of a spoon or fork.
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-13: 08:56:00
Perhaps she's not looking at her reflection at all. As I recall, the dish ran away with the spoon, so there may be something hot about the spoon itself, and she is depicted here spwooning.
Good comment Petaj. Perhaps the definition should say "to prevent a warped reflection of your vanity", or the more clear: "so as not to be seen as vain." Which do you like better? Let me know and I will change it. ~ James
I think purpleartichokes is right -- the spoon is hot! If you look closely, you'll see the reflected woman is wearing oven mitts. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-13: 19:31:00
Wow... I hadn't noticed the mitts before. I must have been looking at a defiction. Definitely lends credence to to dish's side of the story; I hope he gets cupsody of the children. Uhh... sorry for the verbanter. Guess I better get ready for bed.
If it's not an oven mitt, she has a bad case of oedema -- in which case her self-image (as seen in the spoon) is much healthier than she is.
Today's definition was suggested by pinwheel. Thank you pinwheel. ~ James