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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)
Facescape
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: face-scape
Sentence: Bill was into facescaping as he liked to shave his facial hair into creative patterns reflecting his interests.
Etymology: face + scaping (like landscaping)
Haireotype
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)
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"
Hairshow
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
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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Bicspression
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: bic-spress-shun
Sentence: Jill used bicspression to express her sexual oreintation as heterosexual. The bad thing is her excess body hair led people to believe she is indeed a gay man. Poor Jill is so misunderstood.
Etymology: bic, a type of razor/expression
Dopiary
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: doh peeee ar eeee
Sentence: Her eccentrically patterned beard rash said it all. He was a dope and he had the dopiary to prove it
Etymology: topiary, dope
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COMMENTS:
The tree where the last of the seven dwarves lives...good answer - Nosila, 2009-11-18: 15:16:00
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Follitics
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: fall-i-tics
Sentence: She marveled at his ability to play follitics - she'd never seen a goatee shaped like a hand throwing the horns...
Etymology: follicles + politics
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!