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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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Diffpoint
Created by: SlRf24
Pronunciation: "Dif" pronunced with the UK pronunciation.
Sentence: Julie's diffpoint is her abillity to stay underwater for more than 5 minutes!Well,she's a hero to me!
Etymology: Difference+Point
Stupearck
Created by: serjion
Pronunciation: stU-pi-ark
Sentence: The goalkeeper uses a stupeark technik to protect the gates.
Etymology: stupefaction+patriarch
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
Runtage
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: runt-age
Sentence: It was Rudolph's runtage that made him so adept at leading the sleigh.
Etymology: Runt + Advantage
Superfluassness
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: sue-purr-flue-ass-ness
Sentence: Though others deried Jim's superflueassness, he won more flagpole sitting contests than anyone else.
Etymology: superfluousness + well, what else?
Misoshunt
Created by: matchman
Pronunciation: Meeso shunt
Sentence: His limp defined his misoshunt
Etymology: greek
Xtrait
Created by: meiyas
Pronunciation: ex trait
Sentence: People make gun of Xtraits because they wish they had one
Etymology: X= unknow, trait
Freakolutionary
Created by: microwavedboy
Pronunciation: Freak-o-lu-shun-airy
Sentence: Rudolph's freakolutionary nose was mocked by all the other reindeer.
Etymology: A splicing of evolutionary and freak, implying some sort of anomaly in the Darwinian process of evolution.
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