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DEFINITION: n. A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say. v. To talk in a painfully slow manner.
Verboticisms
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Dallygabber
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber
Sentence: It took Frank, a classic dallygabber, three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds. It became so frustrating that everyone was finishing his sentences for him.
Etymology: dally + gab + gabber
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COMMENTS:
Is the Dalai Lama a dallygabber? - porsche, 2007-03-02: 10:30:00
I suspect the Dalai Lama is a dilly dallying dallgabber. - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:33:00
oops I meant a dilly dallying dallygabber - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:34:00
A dillying dallygabber? I guess he would go on, and on, and on... Which might be good, unless it was all talk and no action. - wordmeister, 2007-03-02: 10:50:00
I think this has become a silly dilly dallying dallygabber discourse. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:54:00
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Draggingdrawl
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Drag-ing-drawl
Sentence: Southern Slowpoke Sam was such a draggingdrawl speaker...you would want to pull his words out with your hands!
Etymology: Dragging; failure to act with the necessary promptness or vigor. Drawl; to utter in a slow lengthened tone.
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COMMENTS:
Love it, but had already spent my votes! Cheers. - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 00:35:00
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Boreatone
Created by: eddie
Pronunciation: bor/a/toan
Sentence: Steve "The Slug" Jones speaks in such a boreatone manner that he has been known to talk people to sleep.
Etymology: boredom + monotone
Syllabroadening
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sill a brawd enn ing
Sentence: his syllabroadining was so pronounced, it took him two minutes to say"two minutes"
Etymology: syllable, broaden
Drawlful
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: draul ful
Sentence: W h e n F r e d t o l d a j o k e i t w a s s l o w a n d d r a w l f u l .
Etymology: Drawl (a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels; lengthen and slow down or draw out) & Awful (not nice)
Snailocution
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: snay lo kew shun
Sentence: Sheldon Sluggdon spoke very slowly, in fact his snailocution was famous. As a result, people avoided him, because it took him so long to talk about anything. People were astounded when he got his job as a lecturer at the college. If you were unlucky enough to end up in his class, your education would take much longer, but you would be able to catch up on your sleep!
Etymology: Snail (very slow-moving gastropod) & Elocution (a manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture)
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COMMENTS:
up to your usual standard :) - galwaywegian, 2009-09-22: 10:22:00
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Boratory
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bôrətôrē
Sentence: Whenever Jim has insomnia he knows just what to do. He goes into the guest room and turns on the TV to C-Span. The boratory is sure to put him right to sleep. He has to be careful to be lying down when he clicks to the channel so that he doesn*t fall and hit his head as it comes on.
Etymology: bore (make [someone] feel weary and uninterested by tedious talk or dullness) + oratory (the art or practice of formal speaking in public)
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COMMENTS:
heh! - galwaywegian, 2009-09-22: 10:21:00
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Multisyllabadroner
Created by: crazymuso
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was a multisyllabadroner - it took him 3 hours to tell me what the time was, whilst I was looking at his watch.
Etymology: Multi + syllable + drone
Talkumentary
Created by: aj3131
Pronunciation: Talk-u-mentary
Sentence: Everybody want the dude to stop giving us a talkumentary about how he scraped the pimples off his back.
Etymology: talk + (doc)umentary
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COMMENTS:
i really like it but it seems to be more the things the person is saying instead of the actual person...? its good otherwise - ekath, 2007-03-06: 22:16:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James
BMott - 2007-03-09: 00:10:00
Loved this one!
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James
Hey Verbotomists, Jasper Fforde is sending us signed copy of The Eyre Affair for the top writer this week. I guess Fforde did not want to see his heroine, Thursday Next, trapped in verbalaze of boratoric snailocution. ~ James