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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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Birdimify
Created by: hvhtim
Pronunciation: BUR-dih-mih-fy
Sentence: i wanted to birdimify myself when i saw the line for santa at the mall.
Etymology: bird, -imify
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COMMENTS:
good one Hvhtim! I feel the same way - jrogan, 2006-12-18: 00:41:00
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Malalms
Created by: Bunny36
Pronunciation: mal-ahlms
Sentence: He received a malalms to his suprise and horror.
Etymology: Taked from the words mal and alms.
Parapoop
Created by: fmgene
Pronunciation: para- poop
Sentence: she imagined that she was parapooping the festival crowds
Etymology: paratroop
Ornitholohgee
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: awr nith oll oh geee
Sentence: he parroted on and on til he was silenced by a well placed ornathologee
Etymology: ornithology oh gee
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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Faecaeromagine
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: Fees-aer-oh-madge-in
Sentence: I bet that angry environmentalist is going to faecaeromagine... if he isn't already.
Etymology: From the dutch word for feces, faecaliën, the latin word for air, aeris, and the word imagine.
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