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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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Xtrait
Created by: meiyas
Pronunciation: ex trait
Sentence: People make gun of Xtraits because they wish they had one
Etymology: X= unknow, trait
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.
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?
Mutauntation
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: mew-tawn-tay-shun
Sentence: No more deprecation! You must flaunt to the nation your mutauntation!
Etymology: Taunt + Mutation
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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COMMENTS:
Fine word - serjion, 2006-12-21: 05:56:00
Chris! You are hilarious! - wordmeister, 2006-12-21: 08:27:00
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Spedge
Created by: ehaaland
Pronunciation: spej
Sentence:
Etymology: An abbreviation for "special edge."
Strangicity
Created by: townka
Pronunciation: strange-icity
Sentence: Rudolph always did have that strangicity...
Etymology:
Mutadaptation
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: mute-add-ap-tay-shun
Sentence: While women looked askance at Jennifer's third breast mutadaptation, she had plenty of suitors.
Etymology: mutation, adaptation
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:
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