Verboticism: Enuncilater
DEFINITION: n. A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say. v. To talk in a painfully slow manner.
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Enuncilater
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/nun/see/lay/tur
Sentence: Dave spent so much time worrying about pronunciation while conversing that he became know as an enuncilater.
Etymology: enunciator + later
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Aspergadrone
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: Ass-per-ga-droan
Sentence: That aspergadrone over there just took 45 minutes to tell me he was going to be late tomorrow. How many ways can you say "My alarm clock broke"?
Etymology: Asperger's syndrome=an autism spectrum disorder in which the sufferer does not register social queues + drone=someone who goes on and on endlessly
Longuist
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: lon gwist'
Sentence: My friend Daryl, a gifted longuist, knows how to leave a voice mail message that, while saying very little, is so drawn out it exceeds the voice mail time limit. Starting with a period of silence followed by "Uhhh... heyyy..." just adds to the effect.
Etymology: long + linguist
Droneprone
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: drone/prone
Sentence: Pierre Pantperhog was known among family, friends, and foes alike as a dithering "droneprone" dude.
Etymology: drone + prone
Blungle
Created by: JoePeacock
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The lazy oaf blungled on about how it had become increasingly difficult to catch sheep for his supper.
Etymology:
Draggingdrawl
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Drag-ing-drawl
Sentence: Southern Slowpoke Sam was such a draggingdrawl speaker...you would want to pull his words out with your hands!
Etymology: Dragging; failure to act with the necessary promptness or vigor. Drawl; to utter in a slow lengthened tone.
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COMMENTS:
Love it, but had already spent my votes! Cheers. - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 00:35:00
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Boreatone
Created by: eddie
Pronunciation: bor/a/toan
Sentence: Steve "The Slug" Jones speaks in such a boreatone manner that he has been known to talk people to sleep.
Etymology: boredom + monotone
Dialaudler
Created by: sonic101
Pronunciation: di-a-laud-ler
Sentence: Rebecca just goes on and on, always being a dialaudler
Etymology: dialog+daudle=dialaudler
Slowlanespeaker
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: slow-lane-speak-er
Sentence: John is a slowlanespeaker who just putters along talking at his own pace no matter how fast the world around him is zipping by.
Etymology: slowlane (i.e. traffic lane) + speaker
Talkumentary
Created by: aj3131
Pronunciation: Talk-u-mentary
Sentence: Everybody want the dude to stop giving us a talkumentary about how he scraped the pimples off his back.
Etymology: talk + (doc)umentary
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COMMENTS:
i really like it but it seems to be more the things the person is saying instead of the actual person...? its good otherwise - ekath, 2007-03-06: 22:16:00
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