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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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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)

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Conversuctionalist

MrDave2176

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.

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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

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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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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)

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Yawnyacker

Created by: logorrhoea

Pronunciation: yawn-yak-er

Sentence: Bill is such a yawnyacker - people have been known to commit suicide rather than wait for him to stop talking.

Etymology: yawn + yack (persistent annoying chatter)

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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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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

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Windlag

joelb

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

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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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DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
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