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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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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
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
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
Talkoner
Created by: leogd
Pronunciation: tawk on er
Sentence: he's a real talkoner
Etymology:
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)
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
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.
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
Vertardious