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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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Alternationism
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
Phenomaly
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /f&-'nom-&-"lE/
Sentence: Some believed that Humongo Wong's somewhat unusual features were merely a phenomaly, but he and Dr. Plasty knew that his lucrative porn career was in fact due to much hard work and a bit of creative elective surgery.
Etymology: from phenotype + anomaly
Superlatauniquitishness
Created by: Persnicket
Pronunciation: Soo-PER-luh-tuh-you-NEEK-kwuh-tish-niss
Sentence: The SUPERLATAUNIQUITISHNESS of the beast was so strong that my eyes could not help but be drawn to distinctive features.
Etymology:
Stupifunctive
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: Stoo-pi-funk-tiv.
Sentence: Each spinal bone coming out of the back of the new species of wolf is stupifunctive.
Etymology: Sounds like stupify, fun, and active.
Ufference
Created by: hairydoginparis
Pronunciation: ew-fer-ense
Sentence: Van Gogh's ufference was is missing left ear.
Etymology: u-unique ferenece-difference
Heteronomalogenotype
Created by: mantroog
Pronunciation: het-er-o-nom-a-lo-jeen-o-type
Sentence: The elves had never seen a reindeer of that particular heteronomalogenotype.
Etymology: hetero=different, anomaly=abnormality, genotype=genetic constitution
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COMMENTS:
- mantroog, 2006-12-21: 18:08:00
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Handivantage
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: 'hædi,vætıdʒ
Sentence: This third leg on the forehead seems to be a handivantage
Etymology: handy + handicap + advantage
Neodistinct
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: knee-oh-dys-tinct
Sentence: That sixth finger is so neodistinct. She is such a freak.
Etymology: neo - new distinct - different.
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