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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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Rudosyndrom
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: " roo-doe-sin-drum"
Sentence: After the doctor found eyes in the back of my head, he told me. very solemnly told me that I have Rudosyndrom.
Etymology: from Rudolf, the reindeer who was ostracized for his red nose and ended up going down in history for it
Noser
Created by: moma0123
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COMMENTS:
- moma0123, 2006-12-21: 20:26:00
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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?
Hamzuk
Created by: lramakrishnan
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Etymology: Hamzuk, after the Hamilton-Zuk immunocompetence hypothesis in evolutionary biology
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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COMMENTS:
Fine word - serjion, 2006-12-21: 05:56:00
Chris! You are hilarious! - wordmeister, 2006-12-21: 08:27:00
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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
Anomolution
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: a-nom-O-LU-shun
Sentence: At first stans 3rd opposable thumb caused much teasing, but as he grew and developed uses for it he found it very helpful. When he grew up and had children he discovered that the thumb was actually anomolution
Etymology: anomolus + eveolution
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
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