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'Who wants a white christmas?'

DEFINITION: To imagine that you are peace dove, or maybe a pigeon, flying high above the crowd and dropping your best wishes on everyone.

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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

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Cognocolomboamopaxscatus

Created by: neilly

Pronunciation: cogno-col-om-bo-amo-pax-scatus

Sentence: Roger was sick to death of rude shoppers who had forgot the meaning of Christmas, so he went for a coffee and day-dreamed about a wilful act of cognocolomboamopaxscatus.

Etymology: cogitare (latin, to think or imagine); columba (latin, dove); amo (latin, love); pax (latin, peace); scatus, sounds a bit like scat.

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Unmentavianurea

Created by: paperpieces

Pronunciation: un-men-tay-vee-an-yer-ee-ah

Sentence: Sometimes when I am mad at someone I think of unmentavianurea just to imagine poo on his or her head.

Etymology: Un- meaning not, ment- meaning mental, avian meaning bird, urea...feces

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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

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Avianfever

Created by: erwalter

Pronunciation: a·vi·an·fe·ver

Sentence: She would often sit and daydream about coming down with avianfever so that she could leave all her worries behind.

Etymology: avian-bird; fever-illness or like

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Tannenbomber

Created by: ipmcleod

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I was momentarily angry about the black BMW convertible that hijacked my parking spot, but then I saw the pigeons in the tree above it and knew that he would be tannenbombed.

Etymology: Tannenbaum (German for Giftmas tree) + bomber (postmodern Urbanian for bird above you)

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Peacemiarse

Created by: martok

Pronunciation: peace my arse

Sentence: just wait till i am out of this cage, the peacemiarse shall fall on your heads vile humanity.

Etymology: peace/utopia mi arse/anglo saxon/celt/buttocks/skeptical irreverence

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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.

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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

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Created by: jodian

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Comments:

Deadpanlives Deadpanlives - 2006-12-18: 12:55:00
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-18: 17:05:00
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