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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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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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Embarrassteristic

librarian

Created by: librarian

Pronunciation: im-bare-iss-ter-is'-tic

Sentence: That unibrow is a total embarrassteristic.

Etymology: embarrass + characteristic

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Uniquinoid

Created by: Luna2

Pronunciation: You-ni-kwi-noid

Sentence: Harry was a uniquinoid in every sense of the word. He was too tall, too smart, too fat, but he was the leading authority in the field of cybernanites.

Etymology: From unique> one of a kind + noid> a super geek

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Rudolphitis

Created by: hvhtim

Pronunciation: rudolph-itis

Sentence: the reindeer with rudolphitis got all the females in the end.

Etymology: rudolph, itis

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COMMENTS:

umm...look at the picture - hvhtim, 2006-12-21: 09:19:00

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Kellerism

Created by: llimllib

Pronunciation: 'Kell-er-ism

Sentence: "Janice's mole is so ugly." "Yeah, but it's a Kellerism - look at all the guys around her!"

Etymology: Helen Keller -> Kellerism

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Protardation

tilthouse

Created by: tilthouse

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: Think retardation

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Unparavolead

Created by: paperpieces

Pronunciation: un-PEAR-eh-vole-EED

Sentence: Little did they know that Rudolph had an unparavolead to them.

Etymology: Unpara- from unparallel, -vol- from evolution, -lead meaning advantage

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Trainiquecularadvance

Created by: wiccanfey

Pronunciation: Tray-neek-cue-lar-ad-vance

Sentence: Rudolph was a trainiquecularadvance among reindeer with his bright, shiny nose that led Santa's sleigh.

Etymology: Trait, unique, peculiar, advancement

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COMMENTS:

Rudolph was a trainiquecularadvance among reindeer with his bright, shiny nose that lit Santa's sleigh. - wiccanfey, 2006-12-21: 05:57:00

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Thingularity

petaj

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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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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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