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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.
Verboticisms
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Aerodefile
Created by: verbinator
Pronunciation: eh-ro'-di-file
Sentence: Another bad day at Grab 'n Go had Evelyn wishing she could be a pigeon and aerodefile the snotty shoppers bustling past the store.
Etymology: aero + defile
Wishit
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: wi-sht
Sentence: While I was doing my speech I was wishting the crowd.
Etymology: wish + sit
Avianfever
Created by: erwalter
Pronunciation: a·vi·an·fe·ver
Sentence: She would often sit and daydream about coming down with avianfever so that she could leave all her worries behind.
Etymology: avian-bird; fever-illness or like
Imagiscation
Created by: maker
Pronunciation: E-madgee-scation
Sentence: Suddenly someone interrupted my imagiscation.
Etymology: Imagination + Scat
Daydrop
Created by: SwabThePoopdeck
Pronunciation: Day-Drop
Sentence: Jack daydropped on the guy who stole his girlfriend.
Etymology: Daydream + Dropping
Malalms
Created by: Bunny36
Pronunciation: mal-ahlms
Sentence: He received a malalms to his suprise and horror.
Etymology: Taked from the words mal and alms.
Psychornithocrapulence
Created by: vainglorious11
Pronunciation: S-eye-k-or-nih-th-oh-k-rap-you-l-en-ss
Sentence: Waiting in the massive line for the boxing day sale, I caught myself in a bout of psychornithocrapulence.
Etymology: Psych- for mental, ornitho- for bird-related, and crapulence for, well, crap.
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COMMENTS:
This particular case might be better termed "caterval (crowd-related) psychornithocrapulence. - vainglorious11, 2006-12-18: 19:31:00
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Comments:
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.
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