Verboticisms

Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: hay-r-sh-oh

Sentence: She returned from Canada with a Maple leaf hairshow.

Etymology: hair- keratin follicles, prtotruding from skin/ Show - display airshow - display of aeroplanes

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈʍɪskɚˌkoʊd/

Sentence: The Whiskercode is very subtle and finicky; a few hairs is all it takes to go from "neo-Nazi" to "silent-film fanatic."

Etymology: From whisker + code, as in the "handkerchief code"

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: nu wayv shayv

Sentence: Part of Stephanie's's remorphosis was to start barbering the added facial hair that came with her testosterone treatments. It was called a newaveshave and soon, she became Stephen and could shave daily to his/her heart's content.

Etymology: New Waqve (any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field) & Shave (the act of removing hair with a razor)

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Created by: Jeaneai

Pronunciation: Stuh Bul Stie el

Sentence: Gosh, did you see Tom's mustache yesterday? Is it just me or did it kind of look like Al Gore's ear?

Etymology: Stubble, Style

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: poe/lip/tikl/stanse

Sentence: His polipticklestance was expressed by his Bushy beard

Etymology: political stance + lip + tickle

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-02: 12:56:00

good one! - HubbMU, 2007-05-03: 12:51:00

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: un-shave-en-ear

Sentence: She was suspicious of men with large sideburns or beards. To her it was a crafty unshaveneer, a façade behind which they hid their evil intent.

Etymology: unshaven (not shaving one's facial hair) + (a superficial appearance or cover)

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: rayve/shayve

Sentence: With a clever raveshave and applying glitter, he was able to jump around like a living glow stick

Etymology: rave + shave

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: len/in/twist

Sentence: He carefully let the hairs in the centre of his chin grow until they were long enough to fashion into a lenintwist to show his solidarity with the Marxist-Lenintwist philosophy.

Etymology: twist (a type of hair style) + Lenin + Leninist

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COMMENTS:

Excellent - TJayzz, 2008-07-16: 08:29:00

After reading that, i could use a drink...with a twist of lenin. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-16: 20:18:00

Clever twist. I guess he was a "red" head? - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-17: 06:41:00

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Dem-o-kray-zor-ize

Sentence: Paul was very much in favour of democracy, so when he decided to stand for government he thought it would be a great idea to democrazorise his facial hair by shaving and dyeing it in his polital party's colours to advertise what he stood for, in the hope of gaining a lot more votes.

Etymology: Democracy (a form of government where the people have a voice to excercise power) ORIGIN Greek demokratia, from 'the people' + Kratia 'power' 'rule' + Razor (cut with a razor) Old French raser 'shave closely' = Democrazorise

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COMMENTS:

ineresting blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-16: 11:47:00

Wow! That's ONE serious construction. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-16: 20:16:00

If he's elected, hope there's no Bic-kering. Unique word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-17: 06:48:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: hāərēətīp

Sentence: Billy has adopted the haireotype of the local motorcycle group. At least 80% of the group*s mambers have taken on the shaved head, goatee look. She had to work extra hard to grow the chin fur.

Etymology: hair (any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans) + stereotype (a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing)

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