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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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Rudosyndrom

IHeartKiwiTarts

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

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Unparavolead

Created by: paperpieces

Pronunciation: un-PEAR-eh-vole-EED

Sentence: Little did they know that Rudolph had an unparavolead to them.

Etymology: Unpara- from unparallel, -vol- from evolution, -lead meaning advantage

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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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Evolushun

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

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Sentence: He cursed natural selection everyday for his evolushun.

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Mutashun

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: myou-ta-shun

Sentence: Despite being the brunt of many Bigfoot jokes for his overly large feet, Bob didn't mind his mutashun, as he was quite popular with the ladies.

Etymology: mutation, shun

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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.

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Differencer

Created by: RhPlus

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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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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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Werit

Created by: mar96

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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