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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
Verboticisms
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Bloodplayer
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: blud-plae-yer
Sentence: "I am done playing Doug. I can't take all his yelling anymore. He is a total bloodplayer"
Etymology: blood; play
Scrapple
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: skra-pull
Sentence: Despite the fact that the points were as useless as tits on a bull, Bulletchewer and Jabberwocky scrappled over the nuances of Stevenson0's Verbotocism. In the meantime, Purpleartichoke's word languished, garnering nothing more than a passing glance.
Etymology: Scrabble - the word game; Scrap - an argument; Scrap - a small detail; Scrapple - A Pennsylvania Dutch meat product made from cornmeal mush mixed with normally discarded pork scraps, onions, and spices.
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COMMENTS:
sounds like an acrimonopolyous encounter - petaj, 2007-03-28: 05:41:00
My apologies in advance for monikerizing on my fellow Verbotomists. I couldn't think clearly this morning as I still have that damn song stuck in my head. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-28: 05:56:00
No doubt that's why you've mistaken Jabberwocky for Alchemist. - petaj, 2007-03-28: 05:57:00
Did not! Aw geez, don't mess with me! (... in white satin. Never reaching the end...) - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-28: 06:04:00
Do bulls have nipples? Let's get into a bulletchew over this one. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-28: 06:34:00
Why of course they do, Bulletchewer! Everyone knows that bulls secretly want to be cows, but then again, that may be a lot of nipbull. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-28: 07:24:00
Petaj, dude, read again, I have more than one bullet to chew. The voodoo child was right! So technically bulls do have tits (teats=nipples) but are they still useless...? Mahahaha I'm playing with you now. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-28: 08:47:00
I've heard "scrapple" used to describe a breakfast dish in the Scranton, PA region of Pennsylvania from a college friend. I'm not sure what type of food that it is though. Still, I like this word! - jedijawa, 2007-03-28: 08:57:00
Sounds like something Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute would eat. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-28: 09:21:00
I was looking for a word like this but it eluded me :D - Discoveria, 2007-03-28: 09:57:00
oops, misread that one. Thought it was the nuances of guiltenfreude that were scrappled. - petaj, 2007-03-29: 05:15:00
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Scrabquobble
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: skr ab qu obb le
Sentence: never get in to a game of scrabble with John, it will always end in a scrabquobble
Etymology: from quibble and scrabble and squabble.
Tourneyburny
Created by: serickson
Pronunciation: tur' nee bur nee
Sentence: Shari's' tourneyburny made playing chess with her a real downer.
Etymology: tourney- from tournament, and -burny from burning with rage
Instructionbookletiquette
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: in-struck-shun-book-let-ee-kut
Sentence: Every single games night ended with a protracted session of instructionbookletiquette... and then Gary would knock the board over and go home....we all hated Gary
Etymology: instruction booklet, etiquette
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COMMENTS:
well done! - galwaywegian, 2007-03-28: 03:37:00
You and a few thousand Scousers hate Gary. On any other day I'd tell you of my distaste for Steve, but the lad done good. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-28: 18:00:00
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Rulegality
Created by: coachnomad23
Pronunciation: Rule-legality
Sentence: The little child was always so picky about the rulegalities of the game so much that it made others not want to play any more.
Etymology:
Verbuse
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: ver BUSE'
Sentence: I like playing games with my brother, except when he ends up getting upset over my interpretation of the rules and subjects me to the most terrible verbuse. I say he's too rigid, then he says the way I'm doing it is "incorrect" and "inaccurate." And don't ever say to him, "Who cares about these little details; it's JUST A GAME," because that's when he begins sputtering and spouting some REALLY verbusive language. Last time, it was, "Oh, I forgot, you're the 'good-looking' brother [he still hasn't forgotten THAT remark from Aunt Sophie, 35 years later], but that's okay, because I'm the SMART one!"
Etymology: verbose + verbal abuse
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COMMENTS:
Very apt word...good one! - Nosila, 2009-10-15: 18:20:00
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Verbombard
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: ver-bom-bard
Sentence: He clever verbombard, often quoting Shakespeare, but alas, he was trouble all the same...
Etymology: verb+bomb+bard
Scrabblividity
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: skrab bel liv id it ee
Sentence: Sheldon was a poor sport when he played board games. He cheated and intimidiated his partners and got mad when he lost. His scrabblividity usually resulted in shouting matches. It was suspected that he had vowel trouble...
Etymology: Scrabble (board game like crossword) & Lividity (a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored)
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:
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.
Today's definition was suggested by Alchemist. Thank you Alchemist. ~ James