Verboticism: Reflectompous
DEFINITION: v. To steal a look at your reflection in a window, mirror or other reflective surface; often done furtively so not to be seen as vain. n. A reflected image which is distorted by vanity.
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Egotripper
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: egotripper
Sentence: she is an ego tripper
Etymology: ego and tripper as in lover.
Glimpsneak
Created by: LonePaladin
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As she passed by the cars in the mall's parking lot, she couldn't help glimpsneaking in their side mirrors.
Etymology: 'glimpse' + 'sneak'
Bodycheck
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: body/chek
Sentence: Several bodychecks an hour kept her happy
Etymology: body check (heavy hit) + body + check
Merror
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: me ror
Sentence: Any shiny surface doubled as a merror for the vain Megora.
Etymology: Me (I, self, ego) & Mirror (reflection;image)
Pridecheck
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: pride check
Sentence: Derek Zoolander's first model experience was NOT a pridecheck; he saw himself in a spoon and then decided to become a model.
Etymology: you're checking your appearance in order to check (as in "keep in check" your pride) but everyone just thinks you're checking your appearance to enhance your pride.
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COMMENTS:
very good etymology - really goes with the original definition about a false perception of vanity. - petaj, 2007-04-13: 21:59:00
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Vainbezzle
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌveɪnˈbɛzl̩/
Sentence: Those whose opinion of their attractiveness is not shared by others are more likely to get away with vainbezzling because it's hard to do anything surreptitiously when everyone is staring at you.
Etymology: From vain + embezzle
Narcissneak
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: nar-siss-sneak
Sentence: Anne-Marie loved to narcissneak looks at herself in nearby mirrors.
Etymology: Narcissus + sneak
Abssorb
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: abs-orb
Sentence: Phil was feeling pretty damn hot. He sent a poor old lady flying, so abssorbed was he in the fine reflection of his six pack in the shop window. It was his slice of window fame.
Etymology: abs (abdominal muscles) + absorb (to occupy one's interest, to engross)
Likenessmonsters
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lyke ness mon stirs
Sentence: Young Bonnie was a canny lass. She was gorgeous and knew it. She threw it in the faces of all her suitors, playing one against another....Angus, Jock, Duncan and Alistair. When the lads met for a pint in their local and started comparing notes, as only lads do, they discovered she had fooled them all with her beauty and need for acknowledgement of her famed vanity. She had left no mirror ungazed upon, no window unlooked at and no other shiny surfaces unobserved. That is when they decided that Bonnie, not Nessie, became all the Likenessmonsters of their lonely lives.
Etymology: Likeness (picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing;similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things); Loch Ness Monsters (large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland, plural: more than one)
Inanimire
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: In an uh mahyr
Sentence: Although the smart phone battery had died 47 minutes ago, that didn't stop Leopold from faking a text now and again to inanimire how his new hairstyle.
Etymology: Inanimate - Admire
