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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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Borator
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: bore-ate-er
Sentence:
Etymology: bore+orator
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COMMENTS:
Good word!! - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:56:00
Yes, A boring speaker at a function for the make-glorious benefit of Kazakhstan! - petaj, 2007-03-02: 20:06:00
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Droneprone
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: drone/prone
Sentence: Pierre Pantperhog was known among family, friends, and foes alike as a dithering "droneprone" dude.
Etymology: drone + prone
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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Lethargument
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: leth-ahr-gyuh-muhnt
Sentence: Don't ever get into a lethargument with Neil. It could last for days.
Etymology: lethargic (the quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity) + argument (an oral disagreement)
Enuncilater
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/nun/see/lay/tur
Sentence: Dave spent so much time worrying about pronunciation while conversing that he became know as an enuncilater.
Etymology: enunciator + later
Molassalogue
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: mull-ass-uh-log
Sentence: I'd rather be eaten alive by a wild hog than listen to another Molassalogue.
Etymology: molasses + monologue
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COMMENTS:
Does a molassalogue have a sweet tooth? And always tell a sugar-coated verson? - petaj, 2007-03-02: 20:02:00
Can my 'treaclespeaker' deliver a molassalogue? Nice word! - Discoveria, 2007-03-02: 21:32:00
would you listen in a fog? would you listen with a hog? - Alchemist, 2007-03-03: 07:46:00
Great one! - BMott, 2007-03-09: 00:11:00
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Putterpatterer
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: puuuuuuuh-tur-paaaaaaaaa-tur
Sentence: The patient had the misfortune to get an EMT who was a putterpatterer; by the time his rescuer could utter the phrase "Are you choking?", he had already passed out.
Etymology: putter, patter
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
Forestgumpitis
Created by: subakamoo
Pronunciation: for-est-gump-itis
Sentence: Man, he's talking so slow, seems like he has FORESTGUMPITIS.
Etymology: The movie Forest Gump, coming from the way Forest talks.
Verbalaze
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: ver-bal-laze
Sentence: John is a notorious verbalazer. If he gets the chance to trap you into a conversation, you might as well abandon all hope of being on time for the rest of the day. You're trapped into hearing about his daughter's dance recital and his mother's gallstones whether you like it or not.
Etymology: Verbalize: verbose; express in words + laze: kill or waste time

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