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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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Clothicon
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: Cluh/Thi/Con
Sentence: This guy really is a clothicon... look how he treats his shoes, as if they're human!
Etymology: Derivated word from "lolicon", word that means a person with a lolita complex.
Clothmance
Created by: hamburgerman
Pronunciation: cloh - manse
Sentence: Laura developed such clothmance with the fancy dress she borrowed from her friend that she could not return it.
Etymology: clothes + romance = clothmance
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COMMENTS:
no comment - hamburgerman, 2009-08-20: 21:31:00
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Fassionate
Created by: Jonno
Pronunciation:
Sentence: So fassionate was Julie about her Lacroix wedding gown, she left the groom at the altar and eloped with the dress instead.
Etymology: Passionate about fashion.
Garbond
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: gar-bond
Sentence: Her garbond was getting in the way of our relationship
Etymology: garb + bond
Shoeven
Created by: joeven
Pronunciation: SHOE-hEAVEN
Sentence: she isaw the shoes and knew it was shoeven
Etymology: the article of clothing the Shoe and the feeling of being in Heaven
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COMMENTS:
pretty rubish - joeven, 2006-12-14: 12:54:00
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Frockify
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: frock-ify
Sentence:
Etymology: from "frock" clothing and glorify and deify.
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)
Fetisha
Created by: LenhardtLac
Pronunciation: f'-tishö
Sentence: I won't give these shirts to you, It grew to be a fetisha to me throughout these years... oh God...
Etymology:
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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