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DEFINITION: v. To carefully shave your facial hair into a style which advertises your political allegiance, sexual orientation, or taste in music. n. Stylized facial hair.
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Parliamenthairy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: parly a ment heree
Sentence: To display his interest in parliamentary procedure, Wilfred grew a very parliamenthairy beard. His motto was "I won't cut my beard until you cut my taxes!" He never missed a session in the public gallery for years and when he died sitting during the Question Period, the Speaker announced that the visitor with the very long bushy beard had just expired and they would have to raise taxes to pay for his funeral...
Etymology: Parliamentary (relating to or having the nature of a parliament;in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly) & Hairy (having or covered with hair)
Whiskercode
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"
Genreprimp
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: zhahn - ruh - primp
Sentence: Most all of Bernard's clique participated in genreprimp, wherein they trimmed their facial hair in a manner that identified them with their favorite rock band.
Etymology: Blend of 'genre' (genus; kind; sort; style) and 'primp' (to groom oneself carefully)
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COMMENTS:
nice blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-16: 12:00:00
VERY continental ! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-16: 20:13:00
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-07-17: 06:53:00
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Democrazorise
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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Faciarticulate
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: Face-air-tick-you-late
Sentence: His obnoxious styling of his facial hair suggested he was trying to faciarticulate.
Etymology: fac-face iar-hair/facial articulate
Phairomonize
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: fair - oh - mone - iz
Sentence: John was careful to phairomonize his facial hair so that he gave off the right "vibes".
Etymology: pheromone (a chemical substance that convey information to and produce specific responses in certain animals, Chemicals that act as sexual attractants) hair, harmonize
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COMMENTS:
Phair enough! - Nosila, 2009-11-18: 23:34:00
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Varcillate
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: var' cill ate
Sentence: The big M on the back of his head varcillates his preference for the Mavericks.
Etymology: var - variance cillate - hair
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COMMENTS:
Hubbie made this one up. Not too bad I say. - texmom, 2007-05-09: 22:00:00
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Depiliticise
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: dee-pihl-IHT-ihs-ize
Sentence: Alex depiliticised to look boho; unfortunately, his date thought he looked more pomo.
Etymology: depiliate (to shave) + politicise
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COMMENTS:
very clever - petaj, 2007-05-02: 23:55:00
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Stubbelong
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: STUB eh long
Sentence: Her upper lip advertised that she stubbelonged to that group of women who stridently declare that they DON'T CARE how they look to others, particularly men, whom they claim they DON'T NEED OR WANT. But the real reason they don't have any men around is that they can't get any men to look at them without gagging a little bit.
Etymology: stubble + belong
Raveshave
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
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Bulletchewer.
Thank you Bulletchewer! ~ James
Another Verbotomy Splinterview: Jedijawa's Right-Brain Read about it in the Verbotomy Blog.
mplsbohemian - 2007-05-02: 10:58:00
That picture is so disturbing on so many levels.
mplsbohemian - 2007-05-02: 11:01:00
Um, oy, that must have come off so transphobic. :\
About the picture... I have received a suggestion that this young lady's allegiances are less than clear, so I have prepared an alternative portrait. Please see: Being Clear About our Allegiances. Thanks ~ James
Jabberwocky - 2007-05-02: 12:59:00
Yikes!! the options are even more disturbing - pretty soon she'll look like Chewbacca
purpleartichokes - 2007-05-02: 13:26:00
OMG! It's an American Hairwolf in Toondon! (Or perhaps she has a hairmone problem.)
wordmeister - 2007-05-02: 16:30:00
Chewytobacca? I wonder what JediJawa thinks of that?
Bulletchewer - 2007-05-02: 16:45:00
Always love stirring up debate, but credit's due the artist. For some strange reason forgotten in a dream, I only ever thought of this definition applying to the male of the species...
wordmeister - 2007-05-02: 17:26:00
It appears as if this wampeter definitely needs a waxing!
lumina - 2008-07-17: 00:23:00
OMG! I WON! MY FIRST! EXCITING! Do I get a trophy? ha...what fun. Thanks guys!