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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

karenanne

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

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Jabberfuddle

Created by: BuenoCabra

Pronunciation: (JA-bur-fuh'-dul)

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Monotorator

swallowedbyafish

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

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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)

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Blahguy

Created by: paintergrl1313

Pronunciation: Blah-guy

Sentence: That blahguy is so slow.

Etymology: blah+ guy

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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."

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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:

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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

petaj 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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Sludgespeaker

Created by: thedirkus

Pronunciation: Sluhj - Spee - ker

Sentence:

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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

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-02: 00:00:01
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James

BMott - 2007-03-09: 00:10:00
Loved this one!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-22: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-22: 07:12:00
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