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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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Dicapicy
Created by: AiDakura
Pronunciation: dee-ca-pee-see
Sentence: People ridicule him for his dicapicies.
Etymology:
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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Thingularity
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
Rudosism
Created by: Dylanor
Pronunciation: ru-DO-sism
Sentence: His rudosism was his small mutated arm sticking out of his back.
Etymology: Rudolph + sism
Stupearck
Created by: serjion
Pronunciation: stU-pi-ark
Sentence: The goalkeeper uses a stupeark technik to protect the gates.
Etymology: stupefaction+patriarch
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.
Etymology:
Embarrassteristic
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: im-bare-iss-ter-is'-tic
Sentence: That unibrow is a total embarrassteristic.
Etymology: embarrass + characteristic
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...
Fabnormality
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: fab-norm-al-ah-tee
Sentence: As soon as he grew wings the others shunned him, but it was a fabnormality he was willing to bear
Etymology: fabulous, abnormality
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