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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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Scrimbage
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: scrim/bage
Sentence: They got inot a real scrimbage while playing card games
Etymology: scrimmage (struggle) + cribbage
Compettyvism
Created by: Jaxies
Pronunciation: /com-petty-i-vism/
Sentence: "Daisy had developed a severe case of compettyvism during a fast-paced game of scrabble against Tim, concerning whether or not 'PROV', as in the active ingredient in Pantene Pro-v, was a real word. It started with laughter and ended in Tim's hospitalization."
Etymology: Competitive + petty + -vism
Quiglify
Created by: PythianHabenero
Pronunciation: quig-li-fy
Sentence: I hardly ever play Scrabble without quiglifying every little letter.
Etymology: "Quibble" + "niggle" + "-ify" for aesthetic concerns.
Contesty
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)
Gapordeatlie
Created by: featherblade
Pronunciation: gah-pour-dee-eat-lee
Sentence: Although we were sure that Linda was upset over her failure to convince Tommy to see it her way during a gapordeatlie over a chess game, we were completely shocked when we saw that she had chunked a stapler at his head.
Etymology: game + play + ordeal+ great+ lie (yeah, it's all mixed around)
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
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)
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
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