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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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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

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Stigmutata

BlueHand

Created by: BlueHand

Pronunciation: Stig'Mew'Tar'Ta

Sentence: "Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you use your stigmutata to guide my sleigh tonight?"

Etymology: From Stigma and mutation

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Darwineyes

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dahr/win/ize

Sentence: Charles darwineyes were his best feature although they were pretty freaky. He could always spot the winners.

Etymology: darwin + eyes

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Badvantage

Created by: chris

Pronunciation: bad-varn-tij

Sentence: Even though it required him to wear specially reinforced underwear, Nigel was pretty happy with his 20 inch badvantage

Etymology: bad + advantage

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Fine word - serjion, 2006-12-21: 05:56:00

Chris! You are hilarious! - wordmeister, 2006-12-21: 08:27:00

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Shunspot

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: shun-spot

Sentence: Billy's extra finger was a shunspot but allowed him to type faster than his friends when stuck behind his computer instead of getting to play with the cool guys.

Etymology: shun + spot

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Unicarious

Created by: hermionesnape

Pronunciation: uni-cari-ous

Sentence: That scar Harry has is rather unicarious.

Etymology: Uni: unique Cari: of the face/caricature

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Meminant

Created by: Coolfool

Pronunciation: As in eminent, starting with "m"

Sentence: You never know, he may be a meminant individual some day.

Etymology: The relation to "eminent", in sound and meaning is "important". So too, the starting "m", and the "ant" ending. They are derived from "mutant", as well as "important". Evolutionary success is often the result of a gene that has been altered. It has mutat

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- Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 08:22:00

Truncated again! Etymology, (cont.): It has mutated. There is nothing "good" or "bad" inherent in the altering. They took the idiot out of idiot-savant, let's take the idiot out of mautant. - Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 08:28:00

sorry 'bout spelling of last word: mutant. - Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 08:29:00

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Evosuckitism

Created by: jedamacr

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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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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Upperhandicap

Created by: janedoe

Pronunciation: uhp-er-han-dee-kap

Sentence: For years, John was taunted because of his enormous head; but his collosal cranium turned out to be an upperhandicap in that he was a genius.

Etymology: upper hand + handicap

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Darwinoscopy

Created by: Nairock

Pronunciation: Dar-win-NOS-cop-ee

Sentence: The extra digit he had on each finger proved to be a most useful Darwinoscopy.

Etymology:

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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