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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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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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Rudosyndrom

IHeartKiwiTarts

Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts

Pronunciation: " roo-doe-sin-drum"

Sentence: After the doctor found eyes in the back of my head, he told me. very solemnly told me that I have Rudosyndrom.

Etymology: from Rudolf, the reindeer who was ostracized for his red nose and ended up going down in history for it

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Evosuckitism

Created by: jedamacr

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

I'm voting for this because I liked it, but write a sentence at least! - kmccardle, 2006-12-21: 07:30:00

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Misficity

Created by: adobrodt

Pronunciation: miss-FISS-ity

Sentence: Julie's rampant misficity led many to believe her grossly over-sized right pinky to be an abomination until it managed to save a train full of underprivileged orphans.

Etymology: From pop. _Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer_'s "Island of Misfit Toys" and suffix "icity"

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Heteronomalogenotype

Created by: mantroog

Pronunciation: het-er-o-nom-a-lo-jeen-o-type

Sentence: The elves had never seen a reindeer of that particular heteronomalogenotype.

Etymology: hetero=different, anomaly=abnormality, genotype=genetic constitution

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- mantroog, 2006-12-21: 18:08:00

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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

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Stupearck

Created by: serjion

Pronunciation: stU-pi-ark

Sentence: The goalkeeper uses a stupeark technik to protect the gates.

Etymology: stupefaction+patriarch

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Anomolution

Created by: omista

Pronunciation: a-nom-O-LU-shun

Sentence: At first stans 3rd opposable thumb caused much teasing, but as he grew and developed uses for it he found it very helpful. When he grew up and had children he discovered that the thumb was actually anomolution

Etymology: anomolus + eveolution

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Spedge

Created by: ehaaland

Pronunciation: spej

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Etymology: An abbreviation for "special edge."

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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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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