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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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Exoticture

Created by: wphillips77

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Coolicap

Created by: Partario

Pronunciation: Cool-EE-cap

Sentence: "Although, john could not wash the dishes by himself some saw his disablility as a coolicap."

Etymology: A combination of cool and 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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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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Fiveleg

Created by: nikdudnik

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Sentence: 1. He's fiveleg looks especially useful today. 2. Is there somebody who needs fiveleg?

Etymology: five + leg

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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

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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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Darwhimian

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: dar/wim/ee/an

Sentence: The Darwhimian Theory of Evolution favors fortunate if not fanciful furry creatures like Rudolph-The-Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Etymology: variation of Darwinian (adj.) of or relating to Charles Darwin, his theories of evolution, or his followers + whim: a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn or mind

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Misficity

Created by: adobrodt

Pronunciation: miss-FISS-ity

Sentence: Julie's rampant misficity led many to believe her grossly over-sized right pinky to be an abomination until it managed to save a train full of underprivileged orphans.

Etymology: From pop. _Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer_'s "Island of Misfit Toys" and suffix "icity"

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Rufnasism

Created by: Topper

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Sentence: Billy's rufnasist elbow, though large, enabled him to throw the meanest curveball in the league.

Etymology: Latin: Rufus + Nasus, "red nose"

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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