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DEFINITION: A unique physical or psychological trait, which makes one "different". Often seen as a handicap, even if it provides a distinct evolutionary advantage.
Verboticisms
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Traitease
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: tra-tease
Sentence: Although I have third leg due to my traitease, which makes me a great dancer, no one wants to go to the ball with me.
Etymology: trait-tease
Diffpoint
Created by: SlRf24
Pronunciation: "Dif" pronunced with the UK pronunciation.
Sentence: Julie's diffpoint is her abillity to stay underwater for more than 5 minutes!Well,she's a hero to me!
Etymology: Difference+Point
Oddatoid
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: odd a toyed
Sentence: Mr. Smith had a large oddatoid on his face.
Etymology: Odd, to be different. Toid, a unique marking.
Uniquinoid
Created by: Luna2
Pronunciation: You-ni-kwi-noid
Sentence: Harry was a uniquinoid in every sense of the word. He was too tall, too smart, too fat, but he was the leading authority in the field of cybernanites.
Etymology: From unique> one of a kind + noid> a super geek
Unvantage
Created by: awesomo
Pronunciation: Un-vantage
Sentence: Harold's beard is quite the unvantage, as it scares everyone away, but he was able to raise a family of rabbits in it.
Etymology: The prefix un undoes the specified noun, advantage. Although I didn't mean for it to undo it, but for them to go hand-in-hand.
Misoshunt
Created by: matchman
Pronunciation: Meeso shunt
Sentence: His limp defined his misoshunt
Etymology: greek
Freakism
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The circus performer's freakism was her double-jointed spine.
Etymology: From "freak" in the biological sense.
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
Comments:
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).
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