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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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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?
Stupearck
Created by: serjion
Pronunciation: stU-pi-ark
Sentence: The goalkeeper uses a stupeark technik to protect the gates.
Etymology: stupefaction+patriarch
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:
Stupifunctive
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: Stoo-pi-funk-tiv.
Sentence: Each spinal bone coming out of the back of the new species of wolf is stupifunctive.
Etymology: Sounds like stupify, fun, and active.
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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Freakolutionary
Created by: microwavedboy
Pronunciation: Freak-o-lu-shun-airy
Sentence: Rudolph's freakolutionary nose was mocked by all the other reindeer.
Etymology: A splicing of evolutionary and freak, implying some sort of anomaly in the Darwinian process of evolution.
Alternationism
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: alter nation ism
Sentence: he had a classic alternationism, his arms were 3 feet longer than mine!
Etymology: from being alternate or alternative
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