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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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Shunspot

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: shun-spot

Sentence: Billy's extra finger was a shunspot but allowed him to type faster than his friends when stuck behind his computer instead of getting to play with the cool guys.

Etymology: shun + spot

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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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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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Charactravesty

Created by: Chadcaster

Pronunciation: Car-ak-tra-vesti

Sentence: His huge ears were something of a charactravesty, often upsetting children.

Etymology: from characteristic and travesty

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Rufnasism

Created by: Topper

Pronunciation:

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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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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Stupifunctive

Created by: Manhattan

Pronunciation: Stoo-pi-funk-tiv.

Sentence: Each spinal bone coming out of the back of the new species of wolf is stupifunctive.

Etymology: Sounds like stupify, fun, and active.

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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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Misoshunt

Created by: matchman

Pronunciation: Meeso shunt

Sentence: His limp defined his misoshunt

Etymology: greek

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Embarrassteristic

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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