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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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Pernuisance

Created by: rosska

Pronunciation: per-new-sense

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Stuporator

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: stew pour 8 or

Sentence: He was a consumate stuporator, having killed three innocent tourists while giving them directions to the bus depot. in the case of two of them, their heartbeats got slower and slower over the course of two hours until they eventually arrested. Being Japanese, they were too polite to walk away. The third one just lost the will to live, and impaled himself on his umbrella.

Etymology: stupor, orator

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Dallygabber

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber

Sentence: Frank was a classic dallygabber who three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds.

Etymology: dally + gab + gabber

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Epiplod

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: ep-uh-plod

Sentence: Ken was a bigger epiplod than most politicians.

Etymology: epilogue - (a concluding speech) and plod - (trudge, slow)

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Blahsay

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: blah + say

Sentence: Oh good lord, that guy can blahsay his way through 10 minutes of explaining why X-wing fighters are inferior to Y-wings even though they're both made up things in a movie..

Etymology: It's supposed to be like "blase" only I can't do that little accent thingie over the e. But that's the etymology, anyway.

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COMMENTS:

If you're on a PC, make sure your keypad is set for numerical. Hold down your ALT key, and at the same time, enter 0233 on the keypad. If you're on Mac, I don't know what to tell you. - mplsbohemian, 2007-08-27: 15:15:00

I'm on a laptop with no keypad. :( - Osomatic, 2007-08-27: 17:23:00

Or you could copy and paste from a web page, or from a word processing application (insert symbol) - petaj, 2007-08-27: 23:08:00

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Aspersavox

Created by: apathy42

Pronunciation: ass-PER-sah-vocks

Sentence: It was strange; although in every other way Paul was manic, when talking he definitely had the tendency to be an aspersavox.

Etymology: aspersa - the species name for garden snail, vox - latin for voice

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Loqwaitcious

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: loh-KWAYT-shuhs

Sentence: Alex fell asleep during the loqwaitcious ramblings of his date's explaining how she had finally come to the decision to go out with him.

Etymology: loquacious (talkative) + wait

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