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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.
Verboticisms
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Orabore
Created by: jpmikkers
Pronunciation:
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Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
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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.
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)
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
Vertardious
Created by: DrHarvey
Pronunciation: Ver-tard-i-us
Sentence: The intern stood there, pencil on paper, waiting for the daily plan from his vertardious consultant who meandered on about the importance of vigilant fluid management.
Etymology: 'Ver' - of the verbal form. 'Tardus' - Slow, latin.
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)
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
Spalker
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jimmy, a major spalker, seems to have trouble stringing sentences together.
Etymology: space and talker
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
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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Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
Vertardious