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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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Aberlution
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: a bur LU shun
Sentence: By sheer comic aberlution penguins have mananged to captivate the hearts & minds of people everywhere, consequently insuring their survivial.
Etymology: aberration + evolution
Oddportunity
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: odd-portunity
Sentence: Ralph's freakishly long arms gave him the oddportunity to reach into the u-bend where his wedding ring lay after he dropped it in his drunken stupor.
Etymology: From oddness and opportunity
Identicap
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: eyedenticap
Sentence: Everyone is unique with individual characteristics. Each characteristic is called an identicap.
Etymology: obvious really !!!!!!
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...
Isolution
Created by: gabngar
Pronunciation: I-so-lew-shun
Sentence: Having a third eye is an example of isolution.
Etymology: Isotation (being alone) + Evolution
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
Rudosism
Created by: Dylanor
Pronunciation: ru-DO-sism
Sentence: His rudosism was his small mutated arm sticking out of his back.
Etymology: Rudolph + sism
Mutadaptation
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: mute-add-ap-tay-shun
Sentence: While women looked askance at Jennifer's third breast mutadaptation, she had plenty of suitors.
Etymology: mutation, adaptation
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