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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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Alternationism

erasmus

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: alter nation ism

Sentence: he had a classic alternationism, his arms were 3 feet longer than mine!

Etymology: from being alternate or alternative

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Mutadaptation

celeron450

Created by: celeron450

Pronunciation: mute-add-ap-tay-shun

Sentence: While women looked askance at Jennifer's third breast mutadaptation, she had plenty of suitors.

Etymology: mutation, adaptation

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Abnormalitaid

Created by: DarthWader

Pronunciation: ab norm al ih tade

Sentence: Though a bit cumbersome to deal with at first, Roger's enourmous hands served as a curious abnormalitaid in hailing a cab.

Etymology: abnormality (abnormal feature) + aid (thing that is of help or assistance)

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Mutauntation

Created by: lauramy

Pronunciation: mew-tawn-tay-shun

Sentence: No more deprecation! You must flaunt to the nation your mutauntation!

Etymology: Taunt + Mutation

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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

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Evolushun

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He cursed natural selection everyday for his evolushun.

Etymology:

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Obvioevolutionary

Created by: Fenners

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Rudolph has one hell of an obvioevolutionary nose!

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Handycap

Created by: hoodrow

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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

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Genetigift

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: jen-et-ick-ift

Sentence: Many considered Lily's tail to be a freak of nature, but she knew it was a genetigift, because she secretly trained herself to be a deadly assassin with it.

Etymology: Genetic + gift

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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