Verboticism: Droneprone
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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Hourator
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ow ray tor
Sentence: Father Murphy's houratory style had a very wholesome effect on anyone thinking sinful thoughts. After one of his sermons no one could remember what sins they were thinking of committing, not even the ones who remained awake
Etymology: orator, hour
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COMMENTS:
Houray for you! - Nosila, 2009-09-22: 10:57:00
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Jabbler
Created by: toralora
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Paul is a typical jabbler. He told a short and unimportant story in 2 hours.
Etymology:
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
Monotonacity
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: mon-O-tone-as-city
Sentence: Jill spoke to David with monotonacity, determined to make her point, droning on and on till David finally fell asleep.
Etymology: monotone/tenacity,persistant determination
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COMMENTS:
This is the defining characteristic of Ben Stein's character in Ferris Beuller's Day Off. - ErWenn, 2007-03-03: 08:25:00
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Forestgumpitis
Created by: subakamoo
Pronunciation: for-est-gump-itis
Sentence: Man, he's talking so slow, seems like he has FORESTGUMPITIS.
Etymology: The movie Forest Gump, coming from the way Forest talks.
Lowgear
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: lowgear
Sentence: Just let him talk, he is talking in lowgear
Etymology: low and gear as in gearbox
Dallygabber
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber
Sentence: It took Frank, a classic dallygabber, three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds. It became so frustrating that everyone was finishing his sentences for him.
Etymology: dally + gab + gabber
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COMMENTS:
Is the Dalai Lama a dallygabber? - porsche, 2007-03-02: 10:30:00
I suspect the Dalai Lama is a dilly dallying dallgabber. - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:33:00
oops I meant a dilly dallying dallygabber - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:34:00
A dillying dallygabber? I guess he would go on, and on, and on... Which might be good, unless it was all talk and no action. - wordmeister, 2007-03-02: 10:50:00
I think this has become a silly dilly dallying dallygabber discourse. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:54:00
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Onandonmoron
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: on-and-ON-mor-on
Sentence: Phil's friends considered him to be a chronic onandonmoron and had begun to avoid being around him because of his incessant droning on so many incredibly mundane topics
Etymology: Blend of the words 'on', 'and', and 'moron'.
Snailocution
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: snay lo kew shun
Sentence: Sheldon Sluggdon spoke very slowly, in fact his snailocution was famous. As a result, people avoided him, because it took him so long to talk about anything. People were astounded when he got his job as a lecturer at the college. If you were unlucky enough to end up in his class, your education would take much longer, but you would be able to catch up on your sleep!
Etymology: Snail (very slow-moving gastropod) & Elocution (a manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture)
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COMMENTS:
up to your usual standard :) - galwaywegian, 2009-09-22: 10:22:00
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Monotorator
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Unbeknownst to Billy-Bob, he was a notorious monotorator, which explained why everybody always seemed to space out when he spoke.
Etymology: monotonous/monotone + orator