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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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Slothor
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: slaw ther
Sentence: the slothor continued even as his audience snored
Etymology: sloth author
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
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)
Orabore
Created by: jpmikkers
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
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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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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
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
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
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
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