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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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Birgify
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: Buh/rgih/fye
Sentence: I often birgify when louts crowd onto me
Etymology: From "bird", "gift" and with a verbal ending to it ^^
Ploffany
Created by: KliCk5000
Pronunciation: Plo (as in blow) ffany (as in funny)
Sentence: I was in a state of ploffany while waiting in line for the movie, as though I was higher than everyone else.
Etymology: Latin for the state of being high. (Not really)
Pigeonbless
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: Pidge On Bless
Sentence: I am so happy I got pigeonblessed last weekend! It was such a wonderful feeling!
Etymology: Pidgeon + Bless
Whitebless
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Amid the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, one makes time to whitebless.
Etymology: White for the colour of a dove, and its droppings. Bless is self-explanitory.
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
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
Squirtfantaflyze
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: squirt-fanta-flyze
Sentence: Standing in line, I squirtfantaflyzed, concentrating on aiming at the annoying woman in back of me.
Etymology: fantasize + flying + squirting
Gravituity
Created by: DarthWader
Pronunciation: grav ih two ih tee
Sentence: Jonathan (Livingston Seagull) and his compatriots flew high above the Christmas vacationers on the beaches below, bestowing ample holiday gravituity for all to enjoy.
Etymology: gravity (the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth) + gratuity (present, gift)
Poopondreams
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: poop -on -dreams
Sentence: I was so mad at every one in the office that I experienced poopondreams
Etymology: poopondreams - american
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