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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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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
Mutashun
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: myou-ta-shun
Sentence: Despite being the brunt of many Bigfoot jokes for his overly large feet, Bob didn't mind his mutashun, as he was quite popular with the ladies.
Etymology: mutation, shun
Evosuckitism
Created by: jedamacr
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
I'm voting for this because I liked it, but write a sentence at least! - kmccardle, 2006-12-21: 07:30:00
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Kellerism
Created by: llimllib
Pronunciation: 'Kell-er-ism
Sentence: "Janice's mole is so ugly." "Yeah, but it's a Kellerism - look at all the guys around her!"
Etymology: Helen Keller -> Kellerism
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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Evolustugh
Created by: nightclaw42
Pronunciation: ev-oo-lou-st-ugh
Sentence: They made fum of him a at first,but he had the evolustugh.
Etymology: evo-evolutionary st-last ugh-laugh
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