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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.
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Longuist
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: lon gwist'
Sentence: My friend Daryl, a gifted longuist, knows how to leave a voice mail message that, while saying very little, is so drawn out it exceeds the voice mail time limit. Starting with a period of silence followed by "Uhhh... heyyy..." just adds to the effect.
Etymology: long + linguist
Monotorator
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Unbeknownst to Billy-Bob, he was a notorious monotorator, which explained why everybody always seemed to space out when he spoke.
Etymology: monotonous/monotone + orator
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)
Blahguy
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Blah-guy
Sentence: That blahguy is so slow.
Etymology: blah+ guy
Forrestgumpism
Created by: euclid
Pronunciation: forest+gump+ism
Sentence: come on with your bullshit.
Etymology: forrest gump=a long ass explination of a number of years that could have been described in a sentence like:"a mentally challenged man grew up in a society whose government chose to go to war."
Blungle
Created by: JoePeacock
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The lazy oaf blungled on about how it had become increasingly difficult to catch sheep for his supper.
Etymology:
Likeahdrone
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lyk/ah/droe/n
Sentence: A likeahdrone is an individual who intersperses like ah between every word
Etymology: like ah + drone (to go on and on and on)
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COMMENTS:
I've like ah come like ah across some of like those - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:35:00
You must be Canadian like ah, EH? - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:57:00
Although we are aussies are guilty of putting ays on the end of sentences, the kiwis do this something chronic. Would that be the antipodean version of ah? - petaj, 2007-03-02: 19:59:00
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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
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