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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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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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Hamzuk

Created by: lramakrishnan

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Etymology: Hamzuk, after the Hamilton-Zuk immunocompetence hypothesis in evolutionary biology

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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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Aberlution

Created by: memexikon

Pronunciation: a bur LU shun

Sentence: By sheer comic aberlution penguins have mananged to captivate the hearts & minds of people everywhere, consequently insuring their survivial.

Etymology: aberration + evolution

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Handycap

Created by: hoodrow

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Rudosism

Created by: Dylanor

Pronunciation: ru-DO-sism

Sentence: His rudosism was his small mutated arm sticking out of his back.

Etymology: Rudolph + sism

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Ostrigitigation

Created by: r6pokey

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Protardation

tilthouse

Created by: tilthouse

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Etymology: Think retardation

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Crapsticle

Created by: trer9

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Evoniqueness

Created by: jania773

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Sentence: It's become more popular to have an evoniqueness, like a tail.

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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