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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.
Verboticisms
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Coolicap
Created by: Partario
Pronunciation: Cool-EE-cap
Sentence: "Although, john could not wash the dishes by himself some saw his disablility as a coolicap."
Etymology: A combination of cool and Handicap
Dicapicy
Created by: AiDakura
Pronunciation: dee-ca-pee-see
Sentence: People ridicule him for his dicapicies.
Etymology:
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:
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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Unvantage
Created by: awesomo
Pronunciation: Un-vantage
Sentence: Harold's beard is quite the unvantage, as it scares everyone away, but he was able to raise a family of rabbits in it.
Etymology: The prefix un undoes the specified noun, advantage. Although I didn't mean for it to undo it, but for them to go hand-in-hand.
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
Trainiquecularadvance
Created by: wiccanfey
Pronunciation: Tray-neek-cue-lar-ad-vance
Sentence: Rudolph was a trainiquecularadvance among reindeer with his bright, shiny nose that led Santa's sleigh.
Etymology: Trait, unique, peculiar, advancement
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COMMENTS:
Rudolph was a trainiquecularadvance among reindeer with his bright, shiny nose that lit Santa's sleigh. - wiccanfey, 2006-12-21: 05:57:00
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Superfluassness
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: sue-purr-flue-ass-ness
Sentence: Though others deried Jim's superflueassness, he won more flagpole sitting contests than anyone else.
Etymology: superfluousness + well, what else?
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.
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"
Upperhandicap
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: uhp-er-han-dee-kap
Sentence: For years, John was taunted because of his enormous head; but his collosal cranium turned out to be an upperhandicap in that he was a genius.
Etymology: upper hand + handicap
Comments:
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).
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