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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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Obvioevolutionary
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Rudolph has one hell of an obvioevolutionary nose!
Etymology:
Unvantage
Created by: awesomo
Pronunciation: Un-vantage
Sentence: Harold's beard is quite the unvantage, as it scares everyone away, but he was able to raise a family of rabbits in it.
Etymology: The prefix un undoes the specified noun, advantage. Although I didn't mean for it to undo it, but for them to go hand-in-hand.
Advantasyncracy
Created by: jennw2ns
Pronunciation: ad-van-tah-SINK-ra-see
Sentence: Having two left feet turned into an advantasycracy for Helen when she met a guy with two right ones.
Etymology: Advantage + idiosyncracy
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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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)
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.
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
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