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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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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

petaj 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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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:

petaj 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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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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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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Monotorator

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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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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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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

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Snainic

Created by: Ahmad

Pronunciation: sne nik

Sentence: He takes too much time in conveying a single idea , he is a real snainic.

Etymology: snail: an animal which moves very slowly. sonic: sound waves , relating to sound

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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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Dronestoppable

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: drone + stop + uh + bull

Sentence: Oh man, don't get Al Gore going on global warming - he's dronestoppable.

Etymology: Drone + unstoppable. (This isn't really one of my best.)

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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