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DEFINITION: A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly through long explications, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say.
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Plodindromic
Created by: Xatski
Pronunciation: Plod/en/dro/mic
Sentence: After he failed to pause for breath for the fourteenth time I reliezed his stories were rather plodindromic.
Etymology: Plod + Palindromic (Relapsing, recurring)
Tonguesloth
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: tung-sloth
Sentence: Bore was too mild a word for Bob, a drawlsmith, whose glacilalian explications sounded like a dentist's drill - slow and painful. This snailjaw and tonguesloth never put off until tomorrow the tedium he could slackadaisically spread today.
Etymology: Sloth (physically and mentally inactive)& tongue (a speech organ, speech)
Sloliloquist
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: slow-lill-a-kwist
Sentence: Alas, poor Rick, was such a slowliloquist that he would never again tread the boards as Hamlet. He was still to-being or not-to-being when the last members of the audience reached home.
Etymology: slow + soliloquist
Conversuctionalist
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: con-ver-SUCK-shun-al-ist
Sentence: Tom's conversuctional skills were wasted on Mary who would have preverred he used them on her insomniac boyfriend Fred.
Etymology: conversation and suck - a conversuction is a time-wasting endeavor. Those who excel in wasting the time are conversuctionalists.
Monotologue
Created by: Neej13
Pronunciation: Mo-not-a-log
Sentence: The politician was a true monotologue, the perfect one to fillibuster the bill.
Etymology: monotony + monologue
Slothor
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: slaw ther
Sentence: the slothor continued even as his audience snored
Etymology: sloth author
Loquaster
Created by: plan9
Pronunciation: low+qway+ster
Sentence: A true loquaster, Bob never failed to use 1,000 words spoken slowly when 100 uttered quickly would do.
Etymology: loquacious + waster
Orabore
Created by: jpmikkers
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
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Windlag
Created by: joelb
Pronunciation: WIND-lag
Sentence: By now I knew the directions, but the windlag wouldn't stop telling me where to find the on-ramp.
Etymology: wingbag + lag
Dulsertation
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: DUL - ser - tation
Sentence: Arnie's dullsertation on the chemical compounds used to make modern deodorant was more lethal than his body odor.
Etymology: dull + dissertation
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
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