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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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Ufference

Created by: hairydoginparis

Pronunciation: ew-fer-ense

Sentence: Van Gogh's ufference was is missing left ear.

Etymology: u-unique ferenece-difference

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Spedge

Created by: ehaaland

Pronunciation: spej

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Etymology: An abbreviation for "special edge."

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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:

vince 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

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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

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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

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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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Stupearck

Created by: serjion

Pronunciation: stU-pi-ark

Sentence: The goalkeeper uses a stupeark technik to protect the gates.

Etymology: stupefaction+patriarch

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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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Hamzuk

Created by: lramakrishnan

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: Hamzuk, after the Hamilton-Zuk immunocompetence hypothesis in evolutionary biology

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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