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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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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.

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Werit

Created by: mar96

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Differantage

Created by: seraphrevan

Pronunciation: diff-er-ant-ij

Sentence: The football player's differantage made him thinner and slimmer, but also made him twice as fast as the other players.

Etymology: Derived from different and advantage.

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Upperhandicap

Created by: janedoe

Pronunciation: uhp-er-han-dee-kap

Sentence: For years, John was taunted because of his enormous head; but his collosal cranium turned out to be an upperhandicap in that he was a genius.

Etymology: upper hand + handicap

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Dumbomojo

Created by: Madamemojo

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Etymology: dumbo+mojo

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Indiquirk

Created by: squashy

Pronunciation: indy-quirk

Sentence: the man's indiquirk fitted the description in the police appeal poster

Etymology: individual and quirky

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vince i have to say thumbs down for (basically) using the same word as me - vince, 2006-12-21: 12:47:00

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Misoshunt

Created by: matchman

Pronunciation: Meeso shunt

Sentence: His limp defined his misoshunt

Etymology: greek

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Exoticture

Created by: wphillips77

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Rufnasism

Created by: Topper

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Sentence: Billy's rufnasist elbow, though large, enabled him to throw the meanest curveball in the league.

Etymology: Latin: Rufus + Nasus, "red nose"

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Diffantage

Created by: xshadowswimmer08x

Pronunciation: diff-an-tage

Sentence: My diffantage was that i have gills so i can breathe underwater.

Etymology: different/advantage

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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