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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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Guanoodle
Created by: legman
Pronunciation: goo-ahn-oodle rhymes with noodle.
Sentence: The pigion guanoodled me as I walked under the tree.
Etymology: root: guano
Parapoop
Created by: fmgene
Pronunciation: para- poop
Sentence: she imagined that she was parapooping the festival crowds
Etymology: paratroop
Hahagopigeony
Created by: ajamay
Pronunciation: HA HA I kill myself...
Sentence: I'd like to hahagopigeony on my boss this year.
Etymology: Middle Python/Old English
Featherllucinate
Created by: jeremiahbritt
Pronunciation: feh-ther-lew-sih-nayt
Sentence: Michael liked to spend his lunch hour featherllucinating, especially around bald men and babies.
Etymology: Feather+hallucinate
Holiwash
Created by: jania773
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Oh, look dear Nana Betty was holiwashed by that lovely white dove.
Etymology:
Wishit
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: wi-sht
Sentence: While I was doing my speech I was wishting the crowd.
Etymology: wish + sit
Empoopulate
Created by: llimllib
Pronunciation: Em-`poop-you-late
Sentence: The bird generously empoopulated the crowd.
Etymology: From the latin "poop", literally, to drop ground turkey meat from a tray or platter.
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COMMENTS:
Nice explaination of the Etymology. I didn't know that poop was originally latin word! - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 21:49:00
thanks... neither did I :) - llimllib, 2006-12-19: 11:07:00
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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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Dovepooping
Created by: meiyas
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My favourite pastime when queuing at christmas shops is dovepooping
Etymology: dove + poop
Dovebailing
Created by: chuck
Pronunciation: Duv-bay-ling
Sentence:
Etymology: A take on "dovetail," but the dove is dropping or "bailing" its best wishes.
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