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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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Contemguantribute
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: con-tem-guan-tri-bUt
Sentence: Jane was stuck in line at the airport security, late for her plane with no power to do anything about it, all that was left for her was a special gift for the NSA: contemguantribution. After all it is the thought that counts, right.
Etymology: contem(plate), guan(o), (retri/contri)tribution
Cuckoonacy
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: KOO-KOO-na-SEE
Sentence: "That Santa guy's got a major case of Cuckoonacy."
Etymology: Cuckoo + Lunacy
Doottillate
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: sht-uh-late
Sentence: At the office Xmas party, the greasy VP was shttillating every secretary he could corner
Etymology: sht - sht titillate - to exite another pleasurably
Sympigeonry
Created by: polarpanda
Pronunciation: sim-pi-jun-ree
Sentence: Attending the lighting of the tree at Rockefeller Center filled me with sympigeonry.
Etymology: sympathy + pigeon
Crowpping
Created by: FullmoonWitch
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: crowd + dropping
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
Excrimagine
Created by: arianell
Pronunciation: ecks-cruh-MA-jin
Sentence: When I see my smug, obnoxious neighbor Todd mowing his lawn, I excrimagine and picture a large bird dropping landing on his forehead.
Etymology: From the English "excrement", meaning "animal solid waste", and "imagine", meaning "to form a mental image of something".
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