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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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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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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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Phenomaly

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /f&-'nom-&-"lE/

Sentence: Some believed that Humongo Wong's somewhat unusual features were merely a phenomaly, but he and Dr. Plasty knew that his lucrative porn career was in fact due to much hard work and a bit of creative elective surgery.

Etymology: from phenotype + anomaly

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Protardation

tilthouse

Created by: tilthouse

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: Think retardation

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Grackage

Created by: IanArcher

Pronunciation: GRAK'-ij

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Etymology: from the Greek 'grak' meaning flotsam or waste

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Rufnasism

Created by: Topper

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Billy's rufnasist elbow, though large, enabled him to throw the meanest curveball in the league.

Etymology: Latin: Rufus + Nasus, "red nose"

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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.

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Badvantage

Created by: chris

Pronunciation: bad-varn-tij

Sentence: Even though it required him to wear specially reinforced underwear, Nigel was pretty happy with his 20 inch badvantage

Etymology: bad + advantage

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Fine word - serjion, 2006-12-21: 05:56:00

Chris! You are hilarious! - wordmeister, 2006-12-21: 08:27:00

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Strangicity

Created by: townka

Pronunciation: strange-icity

Sentence: Rudolph always did have that strangicity...

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Fiveleg

Created by: nikdudnik

Pronunciation:

Sentence: 1. He's fiveleg looks especially useful today. 2. Is there somebody who needs fiveleg?

Etymology: five + leg

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Rudolphitis

Created by: hvhtim

Pronunciation: rudolph-itis

Sentence: the reindeer with rudolphitis got all the females in the end.

Etymology: rudolph, itis

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umm...look at the picture - hvhtim, 2006-12-21: 09:19:00

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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