Vote for the best verboticism.

'That's my word!'

DEFINITION: v. To engage in an emotional debate over the small, yet somehow surprisingly important details in a simple game. n. An emotional game player

Create | Read

Verboticisms

Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...

You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.

Finster

Created by: bingold

Pronunciation: fin-ster

Sentence: v- Why must you finster over every move?? n- Bruce is such a finster; he just takes all the fun out of the game.

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Scrabbupulous

Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: scrab BUE pu LOUS

Sentence: His intensely fussy way of playing scrabble earned him the name: Mr. Scrabbupulous. It was he the scrabbupulous player who used rules when they were only in his favour to win. One day, determined to change the state of play, they beat him at his game with petty plays and constant whining, louder than Mr. Scrabbupulous’! (Memorizing the dictionary did help them). Scrabbupulous, a bad loser, declared, “There’s something wrong with my game!”

Etymology: Scrabble, scrupulous, tumultuous.

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

He turned into Mr.Scabbupulous! - Nosila, 2009-10-16: 01:40:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Protoclash

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: proh/tuh/klash

Sentence: Because of his competitive nature, a protoclash would undoubtably occur if the score was not in his favour.

Etymology: protocol (rules) + clash

| Comments and Points

Grable

Created by: bengutierrez89

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Megalomonopolia

Created by: Mercutioh

Pronunciation: meh ga lo mo nah po lee yuh

Sentence: The three year feud that ultimately ended in divorce, started with a little megalomonopolia about the hotel on Baltic AvE

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Ludocrous

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: loo doh krus

Sentence: People in the ping pong world were getting tired of his ludocrous behaviour as he screamed "You can not be serious!" everytime he missed the table.

Etymology: ludicrous ludo

| Comments and Points

Monopolemics

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: mono/pole/em/ix

Sentence: Boardgames were just an excuse for us to engage in monopolemics

Etymology: monopoly (popular board game) + polemics (art or practice of controversy)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Polemics eh? You learn something new every day! That said, this tiny mind reckons it sounds more like fighting over money or control of an entire market area. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-28: 18:04:00

Hey, that's perfect! - jedijawa, 2007-03-29: 07:09:00

I think it actually refers to theological controversy but money/markets certainly a religion - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-29: 08:46:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Gamebanger

Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: gaym - bayn - grrr

Sentence: Freddy was behaving like a gamebanger while he angrily shouted out the clues in this round of password. He felt that Sherman had secretly slipped the secret word to Shirley during the lightening round and it had put his team behind.

Etymology: game, gangbanger, bang

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Excellent! - splendiction, 2009-10-15: 23:09:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Dramejah

Created by: ArtistInTraining

Pronunciation: dram-jaw

Sentence: john can sometime's be big dramejah when he is starting to lose. he over reacts all the time!

Etymology: drame - french for drama jah - from jue (french for game)

| Comments and Points

Boforce

Created by: TANGO609

Pronunciation: Bow-Force

Sentence: There wasn't enough boforce to launch the rocket.

Etymology: Boforce=Blast Off Force(Explosive force)

| Comments and Points

Show All or More...

 

Comments:

petaj petaj - 2007-03-28: 05:25:00
Glad to see a definition coming out of the cheatedebate that went on the other day :-)

Bulletchewer - 2007-03-28: 06:26:00
Give a brother some credit for that one.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-15: 03:18:00
Today's definition was suggested by Alchemist. Thank you Alchemist. ~ James