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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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Talkoner
Created by: leogd
Pronunciation: tawk on er
Sentence: he's a real talkoner
Etymology:
Dawdleblather
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dawd-l-blath-er
Sentence: Sid's dawdleblathering crowned him "most likely to cure your insomnia" at the team building convention.
Etymology: dawdle (slow) + blather (blab)
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)
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)
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
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
Turtell
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: tur-tell
Sentence: Bob was a true turtell. He was so slowquacious that by the time he yelled "Fire!", the garage was nothing but a pile of smoldering embers.
Etymology: turtle, tell
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.
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.
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
Vertardious