Verboticism: Dissdress
DEFINITION: n. The feeling of anxiety created by the realization that you've arrived at a social event "wearing the wrong thing". v. To arrive at a social function and suddenly realize that you are you are completely over-dressed or worse -- under-dressed!
Dissdress
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: disss dr eh ss
Sentence: This dissing adressed at her dissdress distressed her, she stressed as she distressed her long tresses.
Etymology: distress diss dress
Points: 821
Comments: Dissdress
silveryaspen - 2008-02-25: 12:59:00
Ess-entially terrific!
Jabberwocky - 2008-02-25: 13:40:00
how disscourteous
OZZIEBOB - 2008-02-25: 19:13:00
Sounds like someone needs a good dressing down!
silveryaspen - 2008-02-25: 21:28:00
It captured all parts of the defninition! Not many words expressed the 'anxiety' in the definition!