The create-a-word game
Verbinition
Do you have a great idea for a Verbotomy definition?
Would you like to see it illustrated? And do you want to see a gaggle of words invented to match it?
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We will respond to all submissions and let you know if, and when, we can verbotomize your definition. Thanks!
Proposed Definitions:
DEFINITION: Looking at your relection in a mirror or reflective surface, such as a shop window, in a furtive manner so as not to be thought vain.
CREATED BY: pinwheel - 2007-04-09
VERBOTOMY: Why do you keep looking at your spoon?
DEFINITION: The obsessive and complusive clicking of refresh on a computer to see if anything has changed yet.
CREATED BY: pinwheel - 2007-04-09
VERBOTOMY: Quit clicking on me! F5!
DEFINITION: Pacing about in front of your stove or microwave, attempting to make your food cook faster using sheer willpower.
CREATED BY: Osomatic - 2007-04-06
VERBOTOMY: My brainwaves are melting cheese
DEFINITION: The act of pressing the elevator call button even though someone else *just* pressed it.
CREATED BY: Osomatic - 2007-04-06
VERBOTOMY: Excuse me, but that's my button
DEFINITION: Just what are those workers doing when they seem to spend more time away from their desks than they do actually working.
CREATED BY: petaj - 2007-04-05
DEFINITION: The act of wanting to sleep with your professor/boss/substance abuse counselor purely because they are your professor/boss/substance abuse counselor and not knowing how either of you would make the first move in that sort of situation.
CREATED BY: playdohheart - 2007-04-04
DEFINITION: To have to do something, especially itch, in an inconvenient situation.
CREATED BY: ziggy41 - 2007-04-04
DEFINITION: The sensation of combined flattery and horror engendered when your best friend of ten years informs you that he or she keeps a lovingly tended shrine in his or her bedroom consisting of illicitly obtained nude photos of you.
CREATED BY: PythianHabenero - 2007-03-31
VERBOTOMY: Thank goodness you walked in!
DEFINITION: the name for the appalling luck of being sick or just having a nasty cold whilst on holiday or on your only day off.
CREATED BY: erasmus - 2007-03-30
DEFINITION: The compulsion to describe, in excruciating detail, the minute details of ones everyday life, as they happen, to some hapless friend on the other end of the cell phone...
CREATED BY: Alchemist - 2007-03-30
VERBOTOMY: I'm calling to tell you that I'm doing my toes
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