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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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Differosity

Created by: tinydancer

Pronunciation: diff-err-oss-it-ee

Sentence: It was her differosity that set her apart from the rest.

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Darwineyes

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dahr/win/ize

Sentence: Charles darwineyes were his best feature although they were pretty freaky. He could always spot the winners.

Etymology: darwin + eyes

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Xtrait

Created by: meiyas

Pronunciation: ex trait

Sentence: People make gun of Xtraits because they wish they had one

Etymology: X= unknow, trait

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Alternationism

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: alter nation ism

Sentence: he had a classic alternationism, his arms were 3 feet longer than mine!

Etymology: from being alternate or alternative

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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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Misoshunt

Created by: matchman

Pronunciation: Meeso shunt

Sentence: His limp defined his misoshunt

Etymology: greek

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Antivolvics

Created by: stargate525

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Darwooser

Created by: Adamson

Pronunciation: Dar-woo-zer

Sentence: That three legged man is a real darwooser

Etymology: Darwin (chuck)+loser

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Evonomoly

Created by: johnnyrockett

Pronunciation: Evo-nom-oly

Sentence: As he looked in the mirror, Rudolph wondered if his evonomoly would ever come to be used.

Etymology: Evo-Evolution nomoly - Anomoly

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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.

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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