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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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Aerialms
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: airy-alms
Sentence: Don't lose hope, aerialms are on the way.
Etymology: Aerial meaning sky and alms meaning gift.
Fealicity
Created by: beast
Pronunciation: Fair-li-city
Sentence: The fealicity formed by the doves in the sky made the soldiers feel a sense of warmth and peace on Christmas's eve.
Etymology: Feather + Felicity
Birdimify
Created by: hvhtim
Pronunciation: BUR-dih-mih-fy
Sentence: i wanted to birdimify myself when i saw the line for santa at the mall.
Etymology: bird, -imify
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COMMENTS:
good one Hvhtim! I feel the same way - jrogan, 2006-12-18: 00:41:00
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Hesculate
Created by: oddnuance
Pronunciation: Hess-q-late
Sentence: While staring down from the empire state building, I found myself hesculating.
Etymology:
Paratoot
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: par-uh-toot
Sentence: Look it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... bird. They say it's good luck when you are paratooted on.
Etymology: [French : para(sol), parasol, parachute parasol + toot] toot: horn, whistle; drunken revelry; slang: lavatory, toilet.
Aviethotic
Created by: Aioua
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'm feeling rather aviethotic today.
Etymology:
Squirtfantaflyze
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: squirt-fanta-flyze
Sentence: Standing in line, I squirtfantaflyzed, concentrating on aiming at the annoying woman in back of me.
Etymology: fantasize + flying + squirting
Cuckoonacy
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: KOO-KOO-na-SEE
Sentence: "That Santa guy's got a major case of Cuckoonacy."
Etymology: Cuckoo + Lunacy
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