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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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Trivanal

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: Triv-eyn-l

Sentence: Family game night never seemed to bring the group closer together due to little Juan's trivanal need to overanalyze every minor detail of the game.

Etymology: Trivial - Anal Why do I emphathise with this definition....

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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.

Etymology:

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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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Verbotocide

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ver bot oh sighed

Sentence: Her snide remarks and superior attitude caused him to commit verbotocide by literally making her eat her words

Etymology: verbotomy, genocide

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COMMENTS:

Words can kill... - Nosila, 2012-07-26: 22:42:00

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Scrabquobble

erasmus

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.

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Scrabpler

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: skrab plur

Sentence: Marvin played Scrabble every Saturday night with his friends. He tried to cheat, made up words and got passionately argumentative when his friends challenged him. The official Scrabble dictionary was always consulted, but Marvin insisted that they did not have all the words in it yet, as the language was constantly evolving. He was a scrabpler for sure, but his friends suspected his verbal diarrhea and intellectual constipation were more due to his IVS... Irritable Vowel Syndrome!

Etymology: Scrabble (a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game) & Scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting)

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Minutirage

Created by: WindingRoad

Pronunciation: [mi-NOO-shi-reyj]

Sentence: He knocked over the board as he minutiraged over his friend's move.

Etymology: From minutiae and rage

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Contesty

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: con-test-ee

Sentence: Jez was a REALLY competitive player. If he sensed his opponent wasn't paying sufficient attention he would get all contesty and yell, "This is NOT just a GAME!"

Etymology: contest (a formal game in which two or more players compete and attempt to win) + testy (irritably impatient, touchy)

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Gamemania

Created by: sasgod

Pronunciation: as game and mania are pronounced with the 2 'M's rolled into 1

Sentence: Every time we sat down to a quite game of cards, the discussion of rules would end in a full-blown case of gamemania

Etymology: game and mania

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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

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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