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DEFINITION: v. To have a favorite article of clothing with which you develop a personal, and even a deeply fulfilling, relationship. n. A much loved article of clothing.
Verboticisms
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Footish
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: fuht-esh
Sentence: Marilyn believed she had very glamorous feet and would spend time pursuing what her friends had begun to label as her footish, trying to find shoes or other footwear that would, in her mind, enhance the 'beauty' of her feet even more.
Etymology: Blend of 'foot' (self exp) and 'fetish' ( an extremely strong devotion to something)
Apparinfatuetish
Created by: Fishpuncher
Pronunciation: Appara-infatu-etish
Sentence:
Etymology:
Vestraphilo
Created by: Frejesal
Pronunciation: Vest-ra-feelo
Sentence: I think I'm starting to vestraphilo this coat my friend gave me, I took it to the movies last night!
Etymology:
Signatcoture
Created by: geoffrank
Pronunciation:
Sentence: That jacket was my signatcoture for years.
Etymology: From signature, meaning personal imprint, and coture, meaning pretentious clothing.
Pantasize
Created by: Hobart
Pronunciation:
Sentence: In high schools across the rural midwest, high school "metal-heads" have been know to pantasize about jean vests, often accompanied with Motorhead patches.
Etymology:
Sweettee
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: swēttē
Sentence: Billy Bob just loves his NASCAR. Nothing gets him pumped up more than a good ol’ Sunday afternoon of racing. And of course he has to wear his authentic, signed Jimmy Johnson teeshirt. There’s nothing like a man wearin’ a shirt with a picture of another man and a badass car and an explosion in the background. He just loves him some Jimmy Johnson. That’s his sweettee. But not THAT kinda sweet and not THAT kinda lovin’. Thatud just be wrong.
Etymology: sweet (delightful) tee (t-shirt)
Infatugarb
Created by: Divakar
Pronunciation: in-faa-chu-garb
Sentence: Jill couldn't let go of her childhood infatugarb, even though John said it made him feel like he was dating his little sister.
Etymology: infatuation + garb
Textilove
Created by: seifip
Pronunciation: text e love
Sentence: I'm in love with these shoes. I'm in textilove.
Etymology: textile + love
Vestamorous
Created by: knave
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She's a little too vestamorous for me -- I just wear my clothes.
Etymology: vest - from Latin vestire to clothe amorous - from Latin amor love
Favomaside
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Fav-vom-aside
Sentence: I have got quite the favomaside with these neon yellow socks with bells attached to the heel. They're like my babies!
Etymology: Favoritism + something with aside in it somewhere...
Comments:
Jonno - 2006-12-14: 04:40:00
Hi all! New to this and it's fun, but here's my 3 cents worth... 1. Placing the most voted-for words at the top of the list biases the voting. 2. Words entered earlier are subject to more votes. Could you not take all the entries before voting begins? Or have voting for yesterday's word while today's definitions are open? 3. You should add the part of speech to the definition (verb, noun, etc). I think the celeverer words are the ones which match the definition. 4. Please make these comment boxes a bit bigger! Thanks, Jon.
Hey Jonno, Thanks for your suggestions. They are all good! We are working on way to divide players/words into smaller groups, which will change the way verboticisms are listed, and the way voting happens. Stay tuned... In terms of the "part of speech", we actually had that in earlier, but took it out because people didn't like it. We could add it back... What do you guys think? Thanks for playing! ~ James
ErWenn - 2006-12-14: 12:14:00
I've just joined, and so far, every definition has been for a verb, but most of them lend themselves better to nouns. For example, it's easier to name a disease or condition than it is to give a word that describes succumbing to such a condition. Most of the winning words are nouns, as you can see. I think you should either formally open it up for any part of speech communicating the idea, choose the part of speech for each definition more carefully, or strictly enforce matching the part of speech of the definition.
philip - 2006-12-14: 12:31:00
Nice idea, look forward to playing :) Agree with Jonno on all points, especially the problem that entries made earlier will automatically get more votes...
verbatul - 2006-12-14: 12:35:00
James, the parts of speech is a great idea! It seems that we have a lot of clever people suggesting words so I don't think any creativity will be suffer. In fact, it may inspire more ingenuity. Great game!
I think that we might take a tip from ErWenn keep it formally open to all parts of speech, but then allow players to create variants for specific part of speech (e.g, a verb, a noun, an adj,) and award bonus points for the extra creativity. ~ James
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