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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.
Verboticisms
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Goateem
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: GO-teem
Sentence: Brandon carefully cultivated his goateem, which set him apart as a member of the young, hip, set. All his friends were too...
Etymology: goatee, team
Primpilgate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: PRIM-Pil-geyt
Sentence: Cincinnati: the city of curly hair; pilosophy: only 59% original; fuzznick, scores of google-hits there, too; hairmony, - not a bad word, but does it fit the definition? What about a platterpilar: might be a bit of a bad hair day when "she" turns into a butterfly. Think I'll have to settle for primpilgate: it's about the best, and most original, I can come up with. Phew, it's been a tough week verbotomising.
Etymology: Blend of PRINK: preen, prettify, prink; PILOSE: hair, hairy and PROMULGATE: make publicly known"
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COMMENTS:
excellent etymology and I applaud your efforts to create original words - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-16: 11:51:00
Methinks the top of your head has come off.
SAY NO MORE! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-16: 20:15:00
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Barbexpress
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: bar - beks - pres
Sentence: In an effort to barbexpress how bald, stubby and chubby is US President material, George Bush took on some weight, got into a new wardrobe and shaved EVERY INCH of his body. Now, he looks less like a president and more like a bowling ball.
Etymology: barber (to trim hair, to shave) + express (to set forth the opinions and feelings of oneself)
Lenintwist
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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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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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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Libertrim
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: lib/er/trim
Sentence: When entering the customs line at the airport, we always sought out the official with the most obvious libertrim who would be open to discussions about us helping him to help us.
Etymology: libertine + trim
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!