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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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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.
Differantage
Created by: seraphrevan
Pronunciation: diff-er-ant-ij
Sentence: The football player's differantage made him thinner and slimmer, but also made him twice as fast as the other players.
Etymology: Derived from different and advantage.
Crapsticle
Created by: trer9
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- trer9, 2006-12-21: 21:39:00
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Aberlution
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: a bur LU shun
Sentence: By sheer comic aberlution penguins have mananged to captivate the hearts & minds of people everywhere, consequently insuring their survivial.
Etymology: aberration + evolution
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
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.
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Mungibation
Created by: peppahmink
Pronunciation: muhnj' ah bayshun
Sentence: Despite Lyle Lovett's preternaturally vertical hair and other such mungibations, the eccentric singer is considered to be an American classic.
Etymology: Derived from the verb "to munge" meaning to transform data in an unknown way into something otherwise unattainable. A quick fix. The result of a "munge" is a mungibation.
Hamzuk
Created by: lramakrishnan
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Etymology: Hamzuk, after the Hamilton-Zuk immunocompetence hypothesis in evolutionary biology
Grackage
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: GRAK'-ij
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Etymology: from the Greek 'grak' meaning flotsam or waste
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