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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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Rufnasism

Created by: Topper

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Sentence: Billy's rufnasist elbow, though large, enabled him to throw the meanest curveball in the league.

Etymology: Latin: Rufus + Nasus, "red nose"

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Misficity

Created by: adobrodt

Pronunciation: miss-FISS-ity

Sentence: Julie's rampant misficity led many to believe her grossly over-sized right pinky to be an abomination until it managed to save a train full of underprivileged orphans.

Etymology: From pop. _Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer_'s "Island of Misfit Toys" and suffix "icity"

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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

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Thingularity

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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

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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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Promutation

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: pro-myoo-TA-shun

Sentence: "Fog, my ass," thought Santa, "time to put Ruldolph's promutation to good use..."

Etymology: Pro - opposite of Con; denoting favorability. Mutation - n alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.

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Spedricle

Created by: debaser80

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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.

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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

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Unicarious

Created by: hermionesnape

Pronunciation: uni-cari-ous

Sentence: That scar Harry has is rather unicarious.

Etymology: Uni: unique Cari: of the face/caricature

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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