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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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Obvioevolutionary

Created by: Fenners

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Sentence: Rudolph has one hell of an obvioevolutionary nose!

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Isolution

Created by: gabngar

Pronunciation: I-so-lew-shun

Sentence: Having a third eye is an example of isolution.

Etymology: Isotation (being alone) + Evolution

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Embarrassteristic

librarian

Created by: librarian

Pronunciation: im-bare-iss-ter-is'-tic

Sentence: That unibrow is a total embarrassteristic.

Etymology: embarrass + characteristic

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Grackage

Created by: IanArcher

Pronunciation: GRAK'-ij

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Etymology: from the Greek 'grak' meaning flotsam or waste

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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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Evoloustic

Created by: jagrubb

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Adipstinction

Created by: cthuljew

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Mutantpower

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: mu-tant-paw-er

Sentence: Beak was often seen as a freak at school, till he found the use of his mutantpower and joined the X-men.

Etymology: it's sort of been used in comics for about 50 years, so I don't see much new things here...

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Indiquirk

Created by: squashy

Pronunciation: indy-quirk

Sentence: the man's indiquirk fitted the description in the police appeal poster

Etymology: individual and quirky

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COMMENTS:

vince i have to say thumbs down for (basically) using the same word as me - vince, 2006-12-21: 12:47:00

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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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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