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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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Crapsticle

Created by: trer9

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Runtage

Created by: Psychicsi

Pronunciation: runt-age

Sentence: It was Rudolph's runtage that made him so adept at leading the sleigh.

Etymology: Runt + Advantage

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Unicarious

Created by: hermionesnape

Pronunciation: uni-cari-ous

Sentence: That scar Harry has is rather unicarious.

Etymology: Uni: unique Cari: of the face/caricature

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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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Disabilitaid

Created by: kmccardle

Pronunciation: Dis-uh-bill-ih-tade

Sentence: The disabilitaid of having four arms meant no one would ever like me for any reason other than I could cook bacon and pancakes at the same time without burning either.

Etymology: Disability + Aid

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Unparavolead

Created by: paperpieces

Pronunciation: un-PEAR-eh-vole-EED

Sentence: Little did they know that Rudolph had an unparavolead to them.

Etymology: Unpara- from unparallel, -vol- from evolution, -lead meaning advantage

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Evolupement

Created by: Mirandala

Pronunciation: ev-o-loop'-ment

Sentence: The third eye in the back of Chad's head was a much-envied evolupement in his cubicle-filled workplace.

Etymology: evolution + development

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Thingularity

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: thing-u-larity

Sentence: His thingularity was a unique appendage sprouting from the top of his head, that caused others to gasp "What is that thing?", yet provided a very useful limb for holding an umbrella or shade in weather extremes.

Etymology: Thing + singularity

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Coolicap

Created by: Partario

Pronunciation: Cool-EE-cap

Sentence: "Although, john could not wash the dishes by himself some saw his disablility as a coolicap."

Etymology: A combination of cool and Handicap

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Spedricle

Created by: debaser80

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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