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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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

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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)

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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)

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Empoopulate

Created by: llimllib

Pronunciation: Em-`poop-you-late

Sentence: The bird generously empoopulated the crowd.

Etymology: From the latin "poop", literally, to drop ground turkey meat from a tray or platter.

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COMMENTS:

Nice explaination of the Etymology. I didn't know that poop was originally latin word! - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 21:49:00

thanks... neither did I :) - llimllib, 2006-12-19: 11:07:00

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Comments:

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 - 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