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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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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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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."
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
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
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
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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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.)
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