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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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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.
Bardbom
Merderer
Created by: oohisay
Pronunciation: mare-dur-ur
Sentence: Johnny likes to think of himself as a merderer of peace.
Etymology: merde--french for shit
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COMMENTS:
Obviously your french classes didn't go to waste. Tres bien mot! - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 21:50:00
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Merroopirdmas
Created by: Dormin87
Pronunciation: mare-oop-erd-mus
Sentence: As I was flying above the sea of people, I thought to myself "Merroopirdmas to all" before I dropped a large white bomb on them all.
Etymology: Merry Christmas, merged with bird poop
Bombird
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: bom-berd
Sentence: As he looked at all his colleagues in the law firm, and thought about what he'd like to give them for Christmas,his mind began to bomberd at an unprecendented rate
Etymology: bombard + bird
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COMMENTS:
bombastic word! - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 10:05:00
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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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Guanoint
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: gwa-noynt
Sentence: If I could be anything in the world that flew, I would be a dove and guanoint you all with poo... (apologies to Lou Reed!)
Etymology: guano + anoint
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