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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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Dialaudler
Created by: sonic101
Pronunciation: di-a-laud-ler
Sentence: Rebecca just goes on and on, always being a dialaudler
Etymology: dialog+daudle=dialaudler
Aspergadrone
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: Ass-per-ga-droan
Sentence: That aspergadrone over there just took 45 minutes to tell me he was going to be late tomorrow. How many ways can you say "My alarm clock broke"?
Etymology: Asperger's syndrome=an autism spectrum disorder in which the sufferer does not register social queues + drone=someone who goes on and on endlessly
Slowspoke
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: slow-spoke (said very slowly with long drawn out syllables - OK you figured it out long ago)
Sentence: Colin was a renowned slowspoke, and could never work out why his conversants kept toe-tapping or clock-watching or finger-drumming.
Etymology: slow poke (a dawdler) + spoke (past tense of speak) + slow (not quick witted esp. not realising that the audience already understands)
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COMMENTS:
you even have to say this word slowly - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 09:14:00
good... one... - wordmeister, 2007-03-02: 10:41:00
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thaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnk yooooooooooooooooo so muuuuuuuch - petaj, 2007-03-02: 19:57:00
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Debilerate
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: de-bill-er-ate
Sentence: Doug suffered from debilitating deliberation. He was dibilerate.
Etymology: debilitating deliberation
Laguage
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: layg - wij
Sentence: Tessa spoke her own laguage. By the time she finished a sentence, everyone knew what she was trying to say and had long since ceased to listen.
Etymology: lag, language
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Nosila, 2009-09-22: 10:57:00
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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)
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
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
Turtletongue
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: TER-tel-tung
Sentence: Criminey! Joe is a turtletongue! It took him 15 minutes to order breakfast! How long does it take to say "coffee and a bagel"?
Etymology: turtle + tongue
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COMMENTS:
Too bad if he was also a cloth-ears, a favourite term of my Dad's - petaj, 2007-03-02: 04:18:00
What happened to slothmouth? My comment seems inappropriate now! - petaj, 2007-03-02: 20:07:00
I had a change of heart~ don't worry, your comment still applies... - Alchemist, 2007-03-02: 21:51:00
Simple and good. - ErWenn, 2007-03-03: 08:25:00
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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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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