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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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Heteronomalogenotype

Created by: mantroog

Pronunciation: het-er-o-nom-a-lo-jeen-o-type

Sentence: The elves had never seen a reindeer of that particular heteronomalogenotype.

Etymology: hetero=different, anomaly=abnormality, genotype=genetic constitution

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- mantroog, 2006-12-21: 18:08:00

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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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Obvioevolutionary

Created by: Fenners

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Sentence: Rudolph has one hell of an obvioevolutionary nose!

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Evoloustic

Created by: jagrubb

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Charactravesty

Created by: Chadcaster

Pronunciation: Car-ak-tra-vesti

Sentence: His huge ears were something of a charactravesty, often upsetting children.

Etymology: from characteristic and travesty

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Ufference

Created by: hairydoginparis

Pronunciation: ew-fer-ense

Sentence: Van Gogh's ufference was is missing left ear.

Etymology: u-unique ferenece-difference

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Unidiffap

Created by: Windyo

Pronunciation: You/ni/dif/ap

Sentence: This guy has a unidiffap, see his arms?

Etymology: Uni==> unique Diff==> difference ap ==> last letters from handicap

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Evoniqueness

Created by: jania773

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Sentence: It's become more popular to have an evoniqueness, like a tail.

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- jania773, 2006-12-21: 11:47:00

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Indiquirk

Created by: squashy

Pronunciation: indy-quirk

Sentence: the man's indiquirk fitted the description in the police appeal poster

Etymology: individual and quirky

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vince i have to say thumbs down for (basically) using the same word as me - vince, 2006-12-21: 12:47:00

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Evosuckitism

Created by: jedamacr

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I'm voting for this because I liked it, but write a sentence at least! - kmccardle, 2006-12-21: 07:30:00

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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