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'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

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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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Bubwaves

Created by: David28

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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.

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

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Trivialdispute

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: trivēəldispyoōt

Sentence: It doesn*t matter what board game Gary is playing or who is playing. At some point every game turns into trivialdispute where the minutiae of some rule comes into question.

Etymology: trivial (of little value or importance) + dispute (a disagreement, argument, or debate) a play on Trivial Pursuit

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Rulegality

coachnomad23

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.

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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)

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Mancheater

Created by: josje

Pronunciation: man cheater

Sentence: he is a man cheater

Etymology: man cheater.

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Scrabblesquabble

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: skrab-uhl-skwob-uhl

Sentence: Everybody loves that James now has an electronic edition of Scrabble. Nobody has to engage in a scrabblesquabble when they play him. When he tries to play a word that he "knows" is right, he can scream at the computer all he wants and nobody but neighbors within three blocks have to hear it.

Etymology: Scrabble (Board game where you create interconnected words) + squabble (to engage in a petty quarrel)

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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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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