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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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Heteronomalogenotype
Created by: mantroog
Pronunciation: het-er-o-nom-a-lo-jeen-o-type
Sentence: The elves had never seen a reindeer of that particular heteronomalogenotype.
Etymology: hetero=different, anomaly=abnormality, genotype=genetic constitution
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COMMENTS:
- mantroog, 2006-12-21: 18:08:00
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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"
Oddyhook
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: as in /odd - y - hook/
Sentence: My oddyhok is well hidden, can you see that hair inside my ear?
Etymology: from the English odd meaning no pair, and hook from the English hook meaning hook
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
Rudimation
Created by: jtexas
Pronunciation: rood i MAY shun
Sentence: Roger's rudimation enabled him to stay underwater longer than any diver ever had.
Etymology: rudolph the red-nosed raindeer(American pop-culture) + mutation
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COMMENTS:
- jtexas, 2006-12-21: 13:24:00
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Meminant
Created by: Coolfool
Pronunciation: As in eminent, starting with "m"
Sentence: You never know, he may be a meminant individual some day.
Etymology: The relation to "eminent", in sound and meaning is "important". So too, the starting "m", and the "ant" ending. They are derived from "mutant", as well as "important". Evolutionary success is often the result of a gene that has been altered. It has mutat
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COMMENTS:
- Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 08:22:00
Truncated again! Etymology, (cont.): It has mutated. There is nothing "good" or "bad" inherent in the altering. They took the idiot out of idiot-savant, let's take the idiot out of mautant. - Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 08:28:00
sorry 'bout spelling of last word: mutant. - Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 08:29:00
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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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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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Diffpoint
Created by: SlRf24
Pronunciation: "Dif" pronunced with the UK pronunciation.
Sentence: Julie's diffpoint is her abillity to stay underwater for more than 5 minutes!Well,she's a hero to me!
Etymology: Difference+Point
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