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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.

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Evovantage

Created by: styxandstones31

Pronunciation: e-vo-vantage

Sentence: The monkeys second tail was a complete evovantage, for it helped him hang on to the tree better than the others.

Etymology:

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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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Ufference

Created by: hairydoginparis

Pronunciation: ew-fer-ense

Sentence: Van Gogh's ufference was is missing left ear.

Etymology: u-unique ferenece-difference

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Shazamutation

Created by: Pythias

Pronunciation: sha - zam' - u - ta - tion

Sentence: Rudolf displayed his shazamutation with all the aplomb accorded such a magical beast.

Etymology: shazam + mutation

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Darwhimian

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: dar/wim/ee/an

Sentence: The Darwhimian Theory of Evolution favors fortunate if not fanciful furry creatures like Rudolph-The-Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Etymology: variation of Darwinian (adj.) of or relating to Charles Darwin, his theories of evolution, or his followers + whim: a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn or mind

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Handycap

Created by: kaykee

Pronunciation:

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Unidiffap

Created by: Windyo

Pronunciation: You/ni/dif/ap

Sentence: This guy has a unidiffap, see his arms?

Etymology: Uni==> unique Diff==> difference ap ==> last letters from handicap

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Evolushun

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He cursed natural selection everyday for his evolushun.

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Aberlution

Created by: memexikon

Pronunciation: a bur LU shun

Sentence: By sheer comic aberlution penguins have mananged to captivate the hearts & minds of people everywhere, consequently insuring their survivial.

Etymology: aberration + evolution

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Mutadaptation

celeron450

Created by: celeron450

Pronunciation: mute-add-ap-tay-shun

Sentence: While women looked askance at Jennifer's third breast mutadaptation, she had plenty of suitors.

Etymology: mutation, adaptation

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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