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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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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

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Stupearck

Created by: serjion

Pronunciation: stU-pi-ark

Sentence: The goalkeeper uses a stupeark technik to protect the gates.

Etymology: stupefaction+patriarch

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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

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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

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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?

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Ostrigitigation

Created by: r6pokey

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Misoshunt

Created by: matchman

Pronunciation: Meeso shunt

Sentence: His limp defined his misoshunt

Etymology: greek

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Xtrait

Created by: meiyas

Pronunciation: ex trait

Sentence: People make gun of Xtraits because they wish they had one

Etymology: X= unknow, trait

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Gimpsupervolutionary

Created by: Stump

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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.

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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