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Dishporia
Created by: lordelph
Pronunciation: dish-*pore*-ree-ah
Sentence: I'm afraid your husband has uncurable dishporia
Etymology: In the middle ages, the dish-poor were peasants flogged for failing to complete chores assigned by the lord of the manor. The Victorians contracted this to dishpor, with Charles Dickens popularising the use of "dishporia" in The Pickwick Papers.
Unreworcoleptic
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: Un/weur/ko/lep/tic
Sentence: This person in unreworkoleptic... He can't even hear of unrewarding activites without fainting.
Etymology: Base of "un", mixed with "work" arranged with a C rather than a K, and "leptic" comes from "narcoleptic" ^^
Helpochondriac
Created by: john621
Pronunciation: help-o-kon-dree-ak
Sentence: Everytime the lawn needs mowing you get a new disease, I think you're making it up you helpochondriac.
Etymology:
Psychostallmatic
Created by: aly22
Pronunciation: sī'kō-stall-măt'ĭk
Sentence: Psychostallmatic disorders have definite - but temporary - physical symptoms but are thought to be caused by emotional or psychological factors.
Etymology: psychosomatic and stall
Fuster
Created by: Acostell
Pronunciation: fuhstir
Sentence: He fustered fain he were to injure his back sweeping the kitchen.
Etymology:
Partivoidicitis
Created by: jigendalitwoforks
Pronunciation: par-tih-voy-dis-eye-tus
Sentence: Joey claimed to have partivoidicitis after his father handed him the lawnmower.
Etymology:
Physick
Created by: k28en
Pronunciation: fee-sick
Sentence: As a noun: He is such a physick. His physick is acting up again.
Etymology: Physically Sick
Narcoslacky
Created by: Verbepete
Pronunciation: nar-co-ss-lac-e
Sentence: Jim was overcome with a bout of narcoslacky right after his wife asked him to help with the dishes.
Etymology: Narcolepsy + Slacker
Possumuity
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As usual, George was stricken with acute possumity as soon as dinner was over, and collapsed on the couch.
Etymology: from the north american possum, known for its ability to play dead when threatened.
Comments:
Divakar - 2006-12-13: 02:03:00
Hey guys...I'm new and maybe I'm misunderstanding something. It's called "verbotomy" but do our words have to be verbs? Because to me, this seems to ask for an adjective. I mean, "To fake a sudden..." or "To react with sudden illness..." would sound more verbish.
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 03:02:00
Hey Divakar, Any kind of word will do, as long as it is you can use it in a sentence. And the funnier that sentence that more votes you'll get...
verbatul - 2006-12-13: 07:54:00
Divakar has a point though. An attempt should be made to supply a verb when one is asked for (and still maintain wit).
BaruMonkey - 2006-12-13: 10:32:00
insofar as the name of the game is concerned... Verboseness, Verbosity (n) - An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words.
DarthWader - 2006-12-13: 11:53:00
I agree with Divakar... The definition begins with "To be..." not "The condition of..." Verb, verb, verb. Verb is the worb.
Hey Players,
As you may have noticed we have lot's of new Verbotomists. Welcome to everyone! We are working on setting up a grouping system, so that we can play in smaller groups... We will keep you posted, as we update the system! Cheers, James
warped - 2006-12-13: 13:40:00
Bah, I should read the list FIRST next time: I accidently ended up using someone else's word (shirkitis). Ah well. Also, grouping people into smaller groups would be great, it seems we got a flood of people from Jay Is Games...
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 13:45:00
Hey read the sentence for Workumvent -- it's funny
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 20:57:00
Im pretty sure there is a real word for this...
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 21:16:00
There is, its "Malinger"
- 2006-12-13: 22:12:00
DarthWader, "verb" also refers to words and speech, as in the words "verbal" and "verbalize," or as BaruMonkey pointed out, "verbose." Thus this game is not about the part of speech called "verb," but rather about words in general.
Bifurcated Rivets posted a link to your site recently. That's how I got here.
missparaguay1991 - 2006-12-15: 10:34:00
James you are geniatic! how didn't I think of possibilizing such a fun game! At least we've you! Congreetings!
Hey missparaguay, Thanks for the compliment. What really amazes me, is the super-creativity of all our the players -- there are so many terrific words and sentences! ~ James
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