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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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Uniqueish

icsnwblue

Created by: icsnwblue

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Stigmutata

BlueHand

Created by: BlueHand

Pronunciation: Stig'Mew'Tar'Ta

Sentence: "Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you use your stigmutata to guide my sleigh tonight?"

Etymology: From Stigma and mutation

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Impedimark

Created by: myss51

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Sentence: That was his 'impedimark' and whoever he would be in coversation with would uncomfortably shift their eyes, not speak of the bar jokes.

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Differantage

Created by: seraphrevan

Pronunciation: diff-er-ant-ij

Sentence: The football player's differantage made him thinner and slimmer, but also made him twice as fast as the other players.

Etymology: Derived from different and advantage.

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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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Spedricle

Created by: debaser80

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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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Abnormalitaid

Created by: DarthWader

Pronunciation: ab norm al ih tade

Sentence: Though a bit cumbersome to deal with at first, Roger's enourmous hands served as a curious abnormalitaid in hailing a cab.

Etymology: abnormality (abnormal feature) + aid (thing that is of help or assistance)

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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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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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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