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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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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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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.
Stoned
Created by: d3sire85
Pronunciation: stone-d
Sentence: you feel like bringin joy to the worls when your stoned
Etymology:
Gifturd
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Gif-turd
Sentence: As I was looking for a present for my wife, I looked up and ended up with a gifturd in my eye.
Etymology: Obviously gift+turd
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COMMENTS:
Did you share that gift? - jrogan, 2006-12-18: 00:52:00
The gift that keeps on giving... - johnnyrockett, 2006-12-18: 20:47:00
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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.
Crapmas
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: crap mas
Sentence: The angels of light have annointed you with the divine essence of crapmas.
Etymology: crap + christmas
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COMMENTS:
In eastern Europe it is actually considered good luck if a pigeon craps on you. - memexikon, 2006-12-18: 09:27:00
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Analeyezing
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ay/nal/i/zing
Sentence: Some days I spend time analeyezing about my coworkers and imagine their upturned faces as I .... on them
Etymology: anal + eyes + analyze
Ornitholohgee
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: awr nith oll oh geee
Sentence: he parroted on and on til he was silenced by a well placed ornathologee
Etymology: ornithology oh gee
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