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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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Stigmutata
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
Impedimark
Created by: myss51
Pronunciation:
Sentence: That was his 'impedimark' and whoever he would be in coversation with would uncomfortably shift their eyes, not speak of the bar jokes.
Etymology:
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.
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
Rudosyndrom
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
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)
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
Embarrassteristic
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: im-bare-iss-ter-is'-tic
Sentence: That unibrow is a total embarrassteristic.
Etymology: embarrass + characteristic
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