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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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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.
Fatuasurdial
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: fat-chew-a-sir-jel
Sentence: he got all factuasurdial on me and read all the directions in a high pitched squeel
Etymology: fatuous + absurd +emotional
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)
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.
Etymology:
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.
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
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)
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
Protoclash
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: proh/tuh/klash
Sentence: Because of his competitive nature, a protoclash would undoubtably occur if the score was not in his favour.
Etymology: protocol (rules) + clash
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