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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Apparallust
Created by: geekgrrl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Hey, you can not wear my appallelust yellow sweater!!
Etymology:
Infatuattire
Created by: thedreness
Pronunciation: in-fah-tue-at-tire
Sentence: I see that silly tramp wearing her infatuattire stilettos everywhere. Look at them, they're growing mold.
Etymology: Self explanatory, the convergence of two words.
Accessorophilia
Created by: jennw2ns
Pronunciation: ac-SESS-er-o-FIL-ee-ah
Sentence: I knew my accessorophilia had reached fever pitch when I started holding conversations with my brown sweater.
Etymology:
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:
Accessamour
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: ass-ess-a-mor
Sentence: As she saw the purse in the window, she ignored the price. It was accessamour at first sight!
Etymology: accessory + amour
Emowear
Created by: verndo
Pronunciation: ee mo wear
Sentence: Yes, I could buy that coat but it just wouldn't fit like my ol' highschool emowear jacket!
Etymology: emotion wear
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COMMENTS:
- verndo, 2006-12-14: 14:13:00
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Signatcoture
Created by: geoffrank
Pronunciation:
Sentence: That jacket was my signatcoture for years.
Etymology: From signature, meaning personal imprint, and coture, meaning pretentious clothing.
Autotogeroticism
Created by: DIKIDI
Pronunciation: AW-TO-TOG-E-ROT-I-SI-ZIM
Sentence: AUTOTOGEROTICISM IS RAMPANT AMONG TEENAGERS AND METROSEXUALS.
Etymology: AUTO (SELF), TOGS (CLOTHES), EROTICISM (AROUSAL)
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)
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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