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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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Obvioevolutionary
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Rudolph has one hell of an obvioevolutionary nose!
Etymology:
Misficity
Created by: adobrodt
Pronunciation: miss-FISS-ity
Sentence: Julie's rampant misficity led many to believe her grossly over-sized right pinky to be an abomination until it managed to save a train full of underprivileged orphans.
Etymology: From pop. _Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer_'s "Island of Misfit Toys" and suffix "icity"
Unvantage
Created by: awesomo
Pronunciation: Un-vantage
Sentence: Harold's beard is quite the unvantage, as it scares everyone away, but he was able to raise a family of rabbits in it.
Etymology: The prefix un undoes the specified noun, advantage. Although I didn't mean for it to undo it, but for them to go hand-in-hand.
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?
Diffantage
Created by: xshadowswimmer08x
Pronunciation: diff-an-tage
Sentence: My diffantage was that i have gills so i can breathe underwater.
Etymology: different/advantage
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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Evovantage
Created by: styxandstones31
Pronunciation: e-vo-vantage
Sentence: The monkeys second tail was a complete evovantage, for it helped him hang on to the tree better than the others.
Etymology:
Shunspot
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: shun-spot
Sentence: Billy's extra finger was a shunspot but allowed him to type faster than his friends when stuck behind his computer instead of getting to play with the cool guys.
Etymology: shun + spot
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