Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: tress test

Sentence: Monty had figured out that when people had bad hair days, they usually had bad mood days. He called it his tresstest and if you looked like Rapunzel, you would likely be in a good mood, but if you looked like Medusa, you were to be avoided at all costs. The words hair trigger were coined for a reason...

Etymology: Tress (lock of hair) & Test (any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc); WordPlay on StressTest (a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress)

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Created by: BeauKnows

Pronunciation: Fail-O-han

Sentence: Starting off in a parent trap. Later becoming a mean girl on a freaky Friday. Then driving a Volkswagen bug "fully loaded", spells disaster. That’s not a bad hair day! That’s a failohan.

Etymology: Failing and Lohan

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Created by: msokoloffster

Pronunciation: Frik - Triz - uhl

Sentence: Sarah slapped anyone who fricktrizzled her; she thought it was bogus.

Etymology: Unknown...

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Created by: Ahoytheship

Pronunciation: cwough-a-lize

Sentence: They were able coifalyze the afro-headed chick from across the room.

Etymology: Coif+Analyze

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Created by: mike6426

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Created by: chris

Pronunciation: cat-egg-hayr-ize

Sentence: Sebastian's ability to categhairise people accurately (even if bald) had usually kept him out of ha(i)rm's way.

Etymology: categorise + hair

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: kwah-fyoor-reed

Sentence: Judging by his greasy comb-over they coiffuread that he was fighting the aging process and his mirrors at home were filthy.

Etymology: coiffure (a style of arranging or combing the hair) + read (to interpret the meaning of by scrutiny or observation)

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Created by: dkrider

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Created by: paperpieces

Pronunciation: Sheh-voah-AH-peal

Sentence: "Hey man, look at her! Her body is bumpin'" "Yeah dude...uhhh, but her cheveauxappeal ain't workin' for me..."

Etymology: Cheveaux- French for hair, -appeal meaning attraction

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Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: tre-suh-man-see

Sentence: I tried to look aloof but she was using the dark powers of tressomancy to divine my true feelings.

Etymology: From MANCY which means "divination by means of" and TRESS which means "hair".

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