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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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Bluebirdism
Created by: serjion
Pronunciation: bluu-bird-ism
Sentence: Our boss has is struck by bluebirdism today: he gives away bonuses.
Etymology: from "blue-bird", a bird of happiness, name of a tale of Maurice Maeterlink
Peacepot
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: pisspot
Sentence: A pigeon overhead might cause you to hear a splat, a dove, a peacepot
Etymology: the symbol of peace spreads pot luck
Pacifoul
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pas/uh/fowl
Sentence: Just released as 1 of the 143 doves at the opening of the Olympic games, I was determined to pacifoul the stadium crowd.
Etymology: pacify + foul
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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Cuckoonacy
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: KOO-KOO-na-SEE
Sentence: "That Santa guy's got a major case of Cuckoonacy."
Etymology: Cuckoo + Lunacy
Phantasmashaplop
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /fan-'tas-m&-sh&-"plop/
Sentence: Samuel hated his job at the Pentagon, and often he would doze at his desk, phantasmashaplopping the hours away visualizing himself as a bald eagle, shaplopping all over his bloodthirsty coworkers.
Etymology: from phantasm, an illusory mental image + shaplop, to drop your peace wishes on someone (from shalom + plop)
Hesculate
Created by: oddnuance
Pronunciation: Hess-q-late
Sentence: While staring down from the empire state building, I found myself hesculating.
Etymology:
Doceavel
Created by: dragonprincess
Pronunciation: dough-see-veel
Sentence: I feel doceavel
Etymology: 'dove' and 'peace' have been wedged together
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
Aviethotic
Created by: Aioua
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'm feeling rather aviethotic today.
Etymology:
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