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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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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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Grackage

Created by: IanArcher

Pronunciation: GRAK'-ij

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Etymology: from the Greek 'grak' meaning flotsam or waste

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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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Exoticture

Created by: wphillips77

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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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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Evoniqueness

Created by: jania773

Pronunciation:

Sentence: It's become more popular to have an evoniqueness, like a tail.

Etymology:

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- jania773, 2006-12-21: 11:47:00

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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

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Dumbomojo

Created by: Madamemojo

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: dumbo+mojo

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Handicapability

Created by: evhershey

Pronunciation: han-dee-cape-a-bill-a-tee

Sentence: Rudolph's nose, although making him the object of ridicule, proved to be the unique handicapability that was needed to guide that sleigh tonight.

Etymology: handicap + capability (form of handicapable)

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Xtrait

Created by: meiyas

Pronunciation: ex trait

Sentence: People make gun of Xtraits because they wish they had one

Etymology: X= unknow, trait

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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