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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

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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)

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Hormonopolize

Created by: AJrunsonrice

Pronunciation: whore-moan-op-poll-eyes

Sentence: John has played Monopoly ever since he was a kid. It is his favorite game. Last Sunday, he played with his new friends, but began hormonopolizing due to his friends' ignorance of the standard rules.

Etymology: hormone-(a substance, especially in women that are pregnant, that drastically affects a person's emotional state)+ Monopoly (a board game that requires the player to buy out all of his/her competition in order to be victorious)

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Boforce

Created by: TANGO609

Pronunciation: Bow-Force

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

Etymology: Boforce=Blast Off Force(Explosive force)

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Pettyfours

Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: pet-ee-foh-rs

Sentence: his pettyfours made his partner cringe and wish that the game of tic tac toe would be soon over.

Etymology: petty- from french petit meaning small

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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

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COMMENTS:

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

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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

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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.

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Scrabblehatingness

Created by: icktoofay

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Contrystericalvowelsy

Created by: azazn

Pronunciation: khan-tris-tear-ick-uhl-vouls-ee

Sentence: Mark and Bob, I am sick of this Contrystericalvowelsy!! I quit.

Etymology: Contr: from Controversy. ysterical: from hysterical. vowelsy: from vowel. sy to add a nice zing.

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Nitlynch

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtˌlɪntʃ/

Sentence: I was nearly nitlynched at the chess club when I incorrectly captured my opponents queen en passant.

Etymology: From nitpick + lynch

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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