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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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Embarrassteristic
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: im-bare-iss-ter-is'-tic
Sentence: That unibrow is a total embarrassteristic.
Etymology: embarrass + characteristic
Evolupement
Created by: Mirandala
Pronunciation: ev-o-loop'-ment
Sentence: The third eye in the back of Chad's head was a much-envied evolupement in his cubicle-filled workplace.
Etymology: evolution + development
Evolustugh
Created by: nightclaw42
Pronunciation: ev-oo-lou-st-ugh
Sentence: They made fum of him a at first,but he had the evolustugh.
Etymology: evo-evolutionary st-last ugh-laugh
Superlatauniquitishness
Created by: Persnicket
Pronunciation: Soo-PER-luh-tuh-you-NEEK-kwuh-tish-niss
Sentence: The SUPERLATAUNIQUITISHNESS of the beast was so strong that my eyes could not help but be drawn to distinctive features.
Etymology:
Freakism
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The circus performer's freakism was her double-jointed spine.
Etymology: From "freak" in the biological sense.
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.
Phenomaly
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /f&-'nom-&-"lE/
Sentence: Some believed that Humongo Wong's somewhat unusual features were merely a phenomaly, but he and Dr. Plasty knew that his lucrative porn career was in fact due to much hard work and a bit of creative elective surgery.
Etymology: from phenotype + anomaly
Rufnasism
Created by: Topper
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Billy's rufnasist elbow, though large, enabled him to throw the meanest curveball in the league.
Etymology: Latin: Rufus + Nasus, "red nose"
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