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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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Ufference
Created by: hairydoginparis
Pronunciation: ew-fer-ense
Sentence: Van Gogh's ufference was is missing left ear.
Etymology: u-unique ferenece-difference
Spedge
Created by: ehaaland
Pronunciation: spej
Sentence:
Etymology: An abbreviation for "special edge."
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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COMMENTS:
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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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
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
Traitease
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: tra-tease
Sentence: Although I have third leg due to my traitease, which makes me a great dancer, no one wants to go to the ball with me.
Etymology: trait-tease
Unicarious
Created by: hermionesnape
Pronunciation: uni-cari-ous
Sentence: That scar Harry has is rather unicarious.
Etymology: Uni: unique Cari: of the face/caricature
Stupearck
Created by: serjion
Pronunciation: stU-pi-ark
Sentence: The goalkeeper uses a stupeark technik to protect the gates.
Etymology: stupefaction+patriarch
Unvantage
Created by: awesomo
Pronunciation: Un-vantage
Sentence: Harold's beard is quite the unvantage, as it scares everyone away, but he was able to raise a family of rabbits in it.
Etymology: The prefix un undoes the specified noun, advantage. Although I didn't mean for it to undo it, but for them to go hand-in-hand.
Hamzuk
Created by: lramakrishnan
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Hamzuk, after the Hamilton-Zuk immunocompetence hypothesis in evolutionary biology
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