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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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Phenomaly

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /f&-'nom-&-"lE/

Sentence: Some believed that Humongo Wong's somewhat unusual features were merely a phenomaly, but he and Dr. Plasty knew that his lucrative porn career was in fact due to much hard work and a bit of creative elective surgery.

Etymology: from phenotype + anomaly

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Evoniqueness

Created by: jania773

Pronunciation:

Sentence: It's become more popular to have an evoniqueness, like a tail.

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- jania773, 2006-12-21: 11:47:00

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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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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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Identicap

Created by: mickey666

Pronunciation: eyedenticap

Sentence: Everyone is unique with individual characteristics. Each characteristic is called an identicap.

Etymology: obvious really !!!!!!

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Spedge

Created by: ehaaland

Pronunciation: spej

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Etymology: An abbreviation for "special edge."

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Uniquirk

vince

Created by: vince

Pronunciation: you/ni/kwerk

Sentence: Without the uniquirk possessed by the monk, there might not have been the foresight to reinforce the temple with bananas.

Etymology: unique + quirk

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Uniqueish

icsnwblue

Created by: icsnwblue

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Evolushun

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He cursed natural selection everyday for his evolushun.

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Darwooser

Created by: Adamson

Pronunciation: Dar-woo-zer

Sentence: That three legged man is a real darwooser

Etymology: Darwin (chuck)+loser

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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