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DEFINITION: To imagine that you are peace dove, or maybe a pigeon, flying high above the crowd and dropping your best wishes on everyone.

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Corpodreamo

Created by: CaptPoco

Pronunciation: Corp-o-dream-o

Sentence: Paul woke up Alice from her corpodreamo.

Etymology: Copro- is a Greek prefix meaning "relating to feces". Dream is dream. The "o" is added to make it rhyming.

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Gravituity

Created by: DarthWader

Pronunciation: grav ih two ih tee

Sentence: Jonathan (Livingston Seagull) and his compatriots flew high above the Christmas vacationers on the beaches below, bestowing ample holiday gravituity for all to enjoy.

Etymology: gravity (the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth) + gratuity (present, gift)

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Dreamdropping

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: dream-drop-ping

Sentence: Sally dreamt she was a bird, soaring high over crowds and dreamdropping her special gifts upon their heads.

Etymology: dream + dropping

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Holydoot

Created by: josje

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Peacepoo

Created by: chrisk2k7

Pronunciation: pee-cee poo

Sentence:

Etymology: peace + poo

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Birgify

Created by: Windyo

Pronunciation: Buh/rgih/fye

Sentence: I often birgify when louts crowd onto me

Etymology: From "bird", "gift" and with a verbal ending to it ^^

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Hiphigistic

Created by: ElBuro

Pronunciation: HIF-ee-GIS-TIK

Sentence: "She stared at the sky with a look of hiphigistic pleasure on her face."

Etymology: Don't ask.

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Gloopwill

Created by: tangledupinblue

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Vigeon

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: vig-e-on

Sentence: Johnny had a vigeon of peace, unfortunately he flew into a window.

Etymology: vision+ pigeon

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Oneiromookulation

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Created by: pegritz

Pronunciation: oh-NEER-oh-mook-yoo-LAY-shun

Sentence: Every year around the holidays I find myself lost in pleasant fantasies of oneiromookulation.

Etymology: oneiro (Greek. dream) + mook (the doodoo) + ulation (uhhh...the doing of something).

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Comments:

Deadpanlives Deadpanlives - 2006-12-18: 12:55:00
Crapatulation

camel - 2006-12-18: 13:38:00
All these nouns & adjectives really irk me; in fact, I'm escafating at the thought of you nounoticists & adjectivists.

ErWenn - 2006-12-18: 13:45:00
This may be a case of a definition carrying too much content. Why the imagining? Why not "To drop your best wishes on everyone, as a peace dove or pigeon"? Or maybe just "To poop on someone, as a dove or pigeon"? You can always elaborate the circumstances in the little comic (which always amuses me, by the way).

ErWenn - 2006-12-18: 13:46:00
I like the new set-up as far as it hides voting results and rankings and how it randomizes the words, but it'd be nice if I could get a list of all the words submitted. Otherwise, I keep hitting "More..." over and over again, just in case I missed one randomly.

gwenaverill - 2006-12-18: 14:51:00
Definitely. Also, I'm having a hard time finding the results now, even for words I've already voted on.

gwenaverill - 2006-12-18: 14:53:00
You know something else that might work well? Have a time window for submitting verboticisms and a different time window for voting on them. For example, we submit the definitions of this word all day today, and then new words cannot be created, and tomorrow we vote on all the entries at the same time as we create the next verboticism. It would cut down on the "early bird" syndrome in voting.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-18: 17:05:00
Hey ErWenn and Gwenaverill, Thanks for your comments! We are in the early days of the game so we appreciate your suggestions. We will make a complete list verboticisims available, and we are workinfg on the timing. Thanks ~ James