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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Smatchilism
Created by: bubbliciousbub
Pronunciation: Sem-hatch-ill-ism
Sentence: I was overcome with smatchilism for the beautiful blue shirt.
Etymology:
Obsessartorial
Created by: Torea
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She was obsessartorial about her cashmere wrap.
Etymology: "Obsession" and "sartorial"
Apparinfatuetish
Created by: Fishpuncher
Pronunciation: Appara-infatu-etish
Sentence:
Etymology:
Paguridaeate
Created by: jsky20
Pronunciation: pag-y&r-id-I-At
Sentence: Forced to don a suit for his aunt's funeral, Peter quickly cranked the stereo and paguridaeated his Zeppelin t-shirt upon returning home.
Etymology: Paguridae, the hermit crab, will fight vigorously for the right garb and literally live in it, once claimed.
Regaliaphelia
Created by: kmccardle
Pronunciation:
Sentence: John's regaliaphelia with his worried his wife. She never knew when the two might run away to the Bahamas together.
Etymology: regalia(fancy or dressy clothing) - phelia(attraction or affinity to something)
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COMMENTS:
So I just realized it should be -philia not -phelia, my bad! - kmccardle, 2006-12-14: 20:12:00
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Habermaina
Created by: Nezuji
Pronunciation: ha/burr/main/ee/ah
Sentence: Janice's habermania for her filthy, old, pink running shoes was beginning to grate on her father's nerves.
Etymology: haberdashery + mania
Conjugarb
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: con-juh-gahrb
Sentence: She found a new denim jacket with which to conjugarb.
Etymology: Conjugate meaning to marry or join. Garb meaning clothing.
Apparelationship
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: Uh-par-eh-LAT-shun-ship
Sentence: Diane was deep into a perverted apparelationship with a naughty pair of sequinned Jimmy Choos, and had to miss church that day.
Etymology: Apparel - Clothing Relationship - thing women have with clothing.
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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