Verboticism: Boneforaled
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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Narcissisly
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: nar + siss + ih + sly
Sentence: She's so narcissisly - there's no reflection she'll pass up!
Etymology: narcissism + sly
Stealthcheckout
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: stellth-check-out
Sentence: Jill enjoyed working the stealthcheckout line at the FoodMart. She could see her reflection on the register screen and knew at all times just how perfect her hair looked and whether or not her lipstick needed refreshed. Best of all, no one really knew that she was checking herself out because it appeared as though she was working hard.
Etymology: wordplay on self-checkout: an alleged way to avoid long lines at the grocery store (not true), which is really an excuse for not hiring enough people to assist customers -- stealth: being furtive or covert + checkout: to look at or inspect thoroughly
Flurt
Created by: mac33
Pronunciation: flurt
Sentence: While Danny was proposing, Karen was flurting with his glasses.
Etymology: flirt + furtive - to flirt furtively with the mirror
Narsisspoon
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: närsəspoōn
Sentence: Marcie loves her reflection. She even has a favorite narcisspoon to facilitate her interest. She keeps it highly polished and will narcisspoon over her image until her cereal gets soggy.
Etymology: narcissism (excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one\'s physical appearance) + spoon (an implement consisting of a small, shallow oval or round bowl on a long handle, used for eating, stirring, and serving food)(behave in an amorous way; kiss and cuddle)
Mirrorage
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: meer-or-ahj
Sentence: It took a moment for Dylan to realize that his sister Monique wasn't spending so much time at the sunglasses display because she was trying out a new pair, it was because she was mugging back at her tiny reflections in the lenses of all the mirrored sunglasses. She was awestruck at teh mirrorage or 64 little images of her looking spectacular in silver and rainbow tint. Dylan didn't have the heart to tell her that the sunglass mirrors really did nothing for her appearance but make her already big nose look bigger.
Etymology: mirror (reflective surface) + mirage (something that is not as wonderful as it seems or not there at all)
Windowcopping
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: win doh kop ping
Sentence: har penchant for windowcopping was discovered when she spent fifteen minutes ogling over some vetinerary products next door to a shoe shop.
Etymology: window shopping, copping a glance
Reflecticheck
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: Reefer minus er + affleck minus af & k + ti like the T in Tshirt + check like in what the hack !
Sentence: After a quick reflecticheck i knew that my spot was still rocking the spot. She was going on a short reflecticheckation and got lost in her looks.
Etymology: reflection + check = reflecticheck
Imagic
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: imaj - ik
Sentence: Penelope was mesmerized. She kept sneaking peeks at herself and she looked better than she thought. It was imagic. Her vanity skewed her reflection so much that she did not even know how she really looked ---and perhaps that was a blessing.
Etymology: image, magic
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COMMENTS:
Good reflection on you, mweinmann! - Nosila, 2009-10-31: 01:12:00
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Slyball
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: sly/ball
Sentence: Whenever she passed a reflective surface, she would slyball her image to ensure she was prim, proper and still pretty.
Etymology: sly + eyeball
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COMMENTS:
sneaky - Jabberwocky, 2007-04-13: 09:57:00
quick and clever - wordmeister, 2007-04-13: 11:48:00
That has a neat sound to it. - jedijawa, 2007-04-13: 12:33:00
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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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