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'Look at that guy's nose!'

DEFINITION: A unique physical or psychological trait, which makes one "different". Often seen as a handicap, even if it provides a distinct evolutionary advantage.

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Stupifunctive

Created by: Manhattan

Pronunciation: Stoo-pi-funk-tiv.

Sentence: Each spinal bone coming out of the back of the new species of wolf is stupifunctive.

Etymology: Sounds like stupify, fun, and active.

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Thingularity

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: thing-u-larity

Sentence: His thingularity was a unique appendage sprouting from the top of his head, that caused others to gasp "What is that thing?", yet provided a very useful limb for holding an umbrella or shade in weather extremes.

Etymology: Thing + singularity

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Fabnormality

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: fab-norm-al-ah-tee

Sentence: As soon as he grew wings the others shunned him, but it was a fabnormality he was willing to bear

Etymology: fabulous, abnormality

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Werit

Created by: mar96

Pronunciation:

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Rudolphitis

Created by: hvhtim

Pronunciation: rudolph-itis

Sentence: the reindeer with rudolphitis got all the females in the end.

Etymology: rudolph, itis

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COMMENTS:

umm...look at the picture - hvhtim, 2006-12-21: 09:19:00

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Oddportunity

Created by: fonka99

Pronunciation: odd-portunity

Sentence: Ralph's freakishly long arms gave him the oddportunity to reach into the u-bend where his wedding ring lay after he dropped it in his drunken stupor.

Etymology: From oddness and opportunity

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Uniquirk

vince

Created by: vince

Pronunciation: you/ni/kwerk

Sentence: Without the uniquirk possessed by the monk, there might not have been the foresight to reinforce the temple with bananas.

Etymology: unique + quirk

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Identicap

Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: eyedenticap

Sentence: Everyone is unique with individual characteristics. Each characteristic is called an identicap.

Etymology: obvious really !!!!!!

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Kellerism

Created by: llimllib

Pronunciation: 'Kell-er-ism

Sentence: "Janice's mole is so ugly." "Yeah, but it's a Kellerism - look at all the guys around her!"

Etymology: Helen Keller -> Kellerism

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Rufnasism

Created by: Topper

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Sentence: Billy's rufnasist elbow, though large, enabled him to throw the meanest curveball in the league.

Etymology: Latin: Rufus + Nasus, "red nose"

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-21: 02:26:00
By popular request! A definition which suggests a noun as the solution. But feel free to twist it into a verb, or even an adjective, if you wish! ~ James

kmccardle - 2006-12-21: 15:03:00
So does anyone else not like this new voting set up? I personally much preferred the ranking system, even if this way is perhaps more fair.

chris - 2006-12-21: 16:11:00
Whatever you do still leaves the system open to mates voting for mates no matter how good or bad the word.....but it's just a game so who cares? The fun is from participating (for me, anyway).

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-21: 23:09:00
Hey kmccardle, the rankings are still here -- but they are not on the front page anymore. You can see the complete list Verboticisms for each definition on the daily stats page. (On the first day this list is presented in alphabetical order. After that, the words are ranked by score.)

The other thing to remember is that this is still an interim measure. We are creating a clustering function which will allow people to play in smaller groups so that there will be more direct interaction and communication between the players. This should be ready for testing in the next week or so... ~ James