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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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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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Evovantage

Created by: styxandstones31

Pronunciation: e-vo-vantage

Sentence: The monkeys second tail was a complete evovantage, for it helped him hang on to the tree better than the others.

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Grackage

Created by: IanArcher

Pronunciation: GRAK'-ij

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Etymology: from the Greek 'grak' meaning flotsam or waste

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Ostrigitigation

Created by: r6pokey

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Mutantpower

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: mu-tant-paw-er

Sentence: Beak was often seen as a freak at school, till he found the use of his mutantpower and joined the X-men.

Etymology: it's sort of been used in comics for about 50 years, so I don't see much new things here...

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Handycap

Created by: degsy99

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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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Evosuckitism

Created by: jedamacr

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I'm voting for this because I liked it, but write a sentence at least! - kmccardle, 2006-12-21: 07:30:00

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Differosity

Created by: tinydancer

Pronunciation: diff-err-oss-it-ee

Sentence: It was her differosity that set her apart from the rest.

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Darwinoscopy

Created by: Nairock

Pronunciation: Dar-win-NOS-cop-ee

Sentence: The extra digit he had on each finger proved to be a most useful Darwinoscopy.

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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