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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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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.
Pigtionalize
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: pidge-on-a-laiz
Sentence: Harry always had others in mind - he frequently pigtionalized people he didn't like.
Etymology: pidgeon (bird) + fictionalize (to make something fictional)
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 ^^
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
Paxirun
Created by: Mirandala
Pronunciation: pax-ee-run
Sentence: I dreamed I was soaring high above the holiday crowds, when, suddenly, overwhelmed by all the peace and joy, I got a nasty case of the paxiruns.
Etymology: pax + runs
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COMMENTS:
Made me laugh - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 10:03:00
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Coonate
Created by: phanson
Pronunciation: ku - nay - t
Sentence: I almost crashed my car while I was coonating
Etymology: Coo (noise doves etc. make), donate
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
Transdoving
Created by: breastplate
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was totally transdoving the other day and I was happy because I hadn't done it recently.
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