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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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Thingularity
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: thing-u-larity
Sentence: His thingularity was a unique appendage sprouting from the top of his head, that caused others to gasp "What is that thing?", yet provided a very useful limb for holding an umbrella or shade in weather extremes.
Etymology: Thing + singularity
Diveanterentiating
Created by: erwalter
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: dievant + differentiating
Rudimation
Created by: jtexas
Pronunciation: rood i MAY shun
Sentence: Roger's rudimation enabled him to stay underwater longer than any diver ever had.
Etymology: rudolph the red-nosed raindeer(American pop-culture) + mutation
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COMMENTS:
- jtexas, 2006-12-21: 13:24:00
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Diffpoint
Created by: SlRf24
Pronunciation: "Dif" pronunced with the UK pronunciation.
Sentence: Julie's diffpoint is her abillity to stay underwater for more than 5 minutes!Well,she's a hero to me!
Etymology: Difference+Point
Oddportunity
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: odd-portunity
Sentence: Ralph's freakishly long arms gave him the oddportunity to reach into the u-bend where his wedding ring lay after he dropped it in his drunken stupor.
Etymology: From oddness and opportunity
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
Mutauntation
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: mew-tawn-tay-shun
Sentence: No more deprecation! You must flaunt to the nation your mutauntation!
Etymology: Taunt + Mutation
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
Identicap
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: eyedenticap
Sentence: Everyone is unique with individual characteristics. Each characteristic is called an identicap.
Etymology: obvious really !!!!!!
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