Saturday, October 24, 2009
Phrontistery
I'm loving this word. My brain now has a new name. It's phrontistery! That's because my wise dictionary tells me that a phrontistery is a place for thinking. It even uses the beautifully eloquent synonym "thinkery". Thanks to all the new word imps who visited today. You are all very welcome and it's good to see that one of our new visitors also won on the poll. Great work, Willimanater.
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Can't see the voting part! Is it just me?
Phrontistery (n) A word used to describe that sort of dental surgery which concentrates on giving people a nice smile rather than concerning itself with deeper dental health issues.
Hi Scriptor Senex, I can see the voting part. Not sure whether it's a temporary glitch that you can't see it, or just a bit phrontistery...
It's the science of creating a falsely positive image. Every politician's staff includes a retinue of at least five phrontists. One Big Brother celebrity is rumoured to employ about a dozen.
A place for the turn-of-the-century pseudo-science of Eugenics, a phrontistary was an office where one might have their cranium measured and evaluated. Measurements from phrenologists were used by the Third Reich to determine the proportions of Jewish skulls. Thank God these "doctors" are no longer in vogue.
Phrontistery is the proper term for the kind of lingerie that women employ when they need to disguise unwanted droops and bulges. A good phrontisterist has been essential to the careers of ladies such as Shirley Bassey and Joanna Lumley.
Phrontistery is the study of plants that have phronds, commonly mis-spelt as fronds.
The stupidity of wearing non-matching colors in your outfit. Such as five colors like:green, red, blue, purple, and orange.
Another meaning of phrontistery is the fact that a person thinks in their mind that someone is wearing to high of heel shoes. They are usually about 3-4 inches tall and a centimeter, or less thick.
Phrontistery is the art of identification of a particular palm tree based on size, shape, and configuration of the fronds.
Phrontistery is a particularly masterful insalt where in the language used is so intalectual, creative, and stealthily worded, the person has no idea that they are being insulted.
Phrontistery is the study of how the facial structure changes through generations of family members. People study and test the facial structure in ancestors' faces and calculate how much they have changed. These people are called phrontisterists. Most of the scientific population calls these people quacks, likening them to Physiognomists of the old days.These people are different from phrontisterists because they believe that you can tell if the person was gulity or innocent, bad or good, law- abiding citizen or good citizen, or what ever the case may be, based on the face structure.
The root word of "phrontistery" is "tist," and it refers to those largely-non-verbal forms of communication such as making the "Tssst" noise with front teeth, or rolling eyes or clucking. They're the kinds of insults that can't be quoted in court, and most commonly practiced by fourteen-year-old girls.
Phrontistery describes those situations where you have to pretend you are listening to what someone is saying, and taking it all in, when in actual fact the situation is so absurd all you want to do is laugh. I had a phrontisteric moment the other day, when a male doctor was trying to demonstrate to me how to do pelvic floor exercises, in order to not have 'leakage'. The sight of a man trying to do an exercise, when he didn;t actually have the correct parts to exercise, was phrontistery to the max.
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