Verboticism: Monolonguer
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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Slothmouth
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: slôθmouθ
Sentence: Whenever Tim has trouble sleeping, he goes to his TV and turns on the local government access channel. He has his own name for the reporter who covers the city council. He calls him Yawn Sleeperson. Five minutes with this slothmouth is sure to bring on slumber. If he is lucky he can stumble to bed just before he nods off, otherwise it’s another morning waking up in rumpled clothing with a kink in his neck.
Etymology: sloth (a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws) + mouth (the opening in the lower part of the human face, surrounded by the lips, through which food is taken in and from which speech and other sounds are emitted)
Verbasnail
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: verb-uh-snail
Sentence: She itched trying to resist helping the verbasnail seated across from her finish his sentence.
Etymology: Verba: of or pertaining to language. -- Snail: critter known for being incredibly slow.
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
Dialaudler
Created by: sonic101
Pronunciation: di-a-laud-ler
Sentence: Rebecca just goes on and on, always being a dialaudler
Etymology: dialog+daudle=dialaudler
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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Putterpatterer
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: puuuuuuuh-tur-paaaaaaaaa-tur
Sentence: The patient had the misfortune to get an EMT who was a putterpatterer; by the time his rescuer could utter the phrase "Are you choking?", he had already passed out.
Etymology: putter, patter
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'.
Wordslogger
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈwɚdˌslɑɡɚ/
Sentence: The wordslogger's tenacity might have been inspiring if context hadn't made it abundantly clear what he was trying to say three sentences into his soliloquy.
Etymology: From word + slog + -er
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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