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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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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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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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Stupifunctive

Created by: Manhattan

Pronunciation: Stoo-pi-funk-tiv.

Sentence: Each spinal bone coming out of the back of the new species of wolf is stupifunctive.

Etymology: Sounds like stupify, fun, and active.

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Evonomoly

Created by: johnnyrockett

Pronunciation: Evo-nom-oly

Sentence: As he looked in the mirror, Rudolph wondered if his evonomoly would ever come to be used.

Etymology: Evo-Evolution nomoly - Anomoly

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Uniqueish

icsnwblue

Created by: icsnwblue

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Handycap

Created by: sir67

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Evolupement

Created by: Mirandala

Pronunciation: ev-o-loop'-ment

Sentence: The third eye in the back of Chad's head was a much-envied evolupement in his cubicle-filled workplace.

Etymology: evolution + development

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Evolushun

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

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Sentence: He cursed natural selection everyday for his evolushun.

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Mungibation

Created by: peppahmink

Pronunciation: muhnj' ah bayshun

Sentence: Despite Lyle Lovett's preternaturally vertical hair and other such mungibations, the eccentric singer is considered to be an American classic.

Etymology: Derived from the verb "to munge" meaning to transform data in an unknown way into something otherwise unattainable. A quick fix. The result of a "munge" is a mungibation.

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Werit

Created by: mar96

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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