Vote for the best verboticism.
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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Apparomance
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: app-a-ro-mans
Sentence: I think Rachel is having an apparomance with her new handbag. She takes it everywhere and stares at it.
Etymology: apparel; romance
Wardromance
Created by: Sissyphus
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Sure, he looked good in his omnipresent Priest tee, but it was a wardromance doomed to malodorous failure when he started dating again.
Etymology: wardrobe + romance
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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Apparastatic
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: uh-par-uh-stat-ik
Sentence: He was so Apparastatic over the shirt his ex-girlfriend bought him, that he told me broke up with me for washing it.
Etymology: Appara - derived from Apparel static - derived from estatic
Attirelationship
Created by: gorillo
Pronunciation: A-tire'-e-la"-tion-ship
Sentence: She won't part with her little black dress, she's in an attirelationship with it.
Etymology:
Sweaterheart
Created by: gwenaverill
Pronunciation: swet-er-hart
Sentence: Diane's love of her favorite green blouse had blossomed into a sweaterheart, and was making her other significant other jealous.
Etymology: sweater + sweetheart
Accoutraffair
Created by: slinky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She developed an intense accoutraffair with her pearl white blouse.
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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