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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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Hamzuk

Created by: lramakrishnan

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

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Protardation

tilthouse

Created by: tilthouse

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Etymology: Think retardation

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Handivantage

Created by: Flixst

Pronunciation: 'hædi,vætıdʒ

Sentence: This third leg on the forehead seems to be a handivantage

Etymology: handy + handicap + advantage

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Oddatoid

Created by: stormee

Pronunciation: odd a toyed

Sentence: Mr. Smith had a large oddatoid on his face.

Etymology: Odd, to be different. Toid, a unique marking.

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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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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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Savantgarde

Created by: fashionista

Pronunciation: Sa-vant-garde

Sentence: One with a severe developmental or mental handicap as well as extraordinary mental abilities (Savant) that pushes the boundaries of what is accepted (Avant-garde).

Etymology: Savant, Avant-garde

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Mungibation

Created by: peppahmink

Pronunciation: muhnj' ah bayshun

Sentence: Despite Lyle Lovett's preternaturally vertical hair and other such mungibations, the eccentric singer is considered to be an American classic.

Etymology: Derived from the verb "to munge" meaning to transform data in an unknown way into something otherwise unattainable. A quick fix. The result of a "munge" is a mungibation.

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Traitease

Created by: Hjason

Pronunciation: tra-tease

Sentence: Although I have third leg due to my traitease, which makes me a great dancer, no one wants to go to the ball with me.

Etymology: trait-tease

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Darwinoscopy

Created by: Nairock

Pronunciation: Dar-win-NOS-cop-ee

Sentence: The extra digit he had on each finger proved to be a most useful Darwinoscopy.

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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