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DEFINITION: To imagine that you are peace dove, or maybe a pigeon, flying high above the crowd and dropping your best wishes on everyone.
Verboticisms
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Bluebirdism
Created by: serjion
Pronunciation: bluu-bird-ism
Sentence: Our boss has is struck by bluebirdism today: he gives away bonuses.
Etymology: from "blue-bird", a bird of happiness, name of a tale of Maurice Maeterlink
Empoopulate
Created by: llimllib
Pronunciation: Em-`poop-you-late
Sentence: The bird generously empoopulated the crowd.
Etymology: From the latin "poop", literally, to drop ground turkey meat from a tray or platter.
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COMMENTS:
Nice explaination of the Etymology. I didn't know that poop was originally latin word! - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 21:49:00
thanks... neither did I :) - llimllib, 2006-12-19: 11:07:00
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Paxirun
Created by: Mirandala
Pronunciation: pax-ee-run
Sentence: I dreamed I was soaring high above the holiday crowds, when, suddenly, overwhelmed by all the peace and joy, I got a nasty case of the paxiruns.
Etymology: pax + runs
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COMMENTS:
Made me laugh - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 10:03:00
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Phantasmashaplop
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /fan-'tas-m&-sh&-"plop/
Sentence: Samuel hated his job at the Pentagon, and often he would doze at his desk, phantasmashaplopping the hours away visualizing himself as a bald eagle, shaplopping all over his bloodthirsty coworkers.
Etymology: from phantasm, an illusory mental image + shaplop, to drop your peace wishes on someone (from shalom + plop)
Faecaeromagine
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: Fees-aer-oh-madge-in
Sentence: I bet that angry environmentalist is going to faecaeromagine... if he isn't already.
Etymology: From the dutch word for feces, faecaliën, the latin word for air, aeris, and the word imagine.
Hahagopigeony
Created by: ajamay
Pronunciation: HA HA I kill myself...
Sentence: I'd like to hahagopigeony on my boss this year.
Etymology: Middle Python/Old English
Oneiromookulation
Created by: pegritz
Pronunciation: oh-NEER-oh-mook-yoo-LAY-shun
Sentence: Every year around the holidays I find myself lost in pleasant fantasies of oneiromookulation.
Etymology: oneiro (Greek. dream) + mook (the doodoo) + ulation (uhhh...the doing of something).
Deficarielove
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: defi-care-eel-ove
Sentence: I share my deficarielove with all of you wonderful parade participants. Don't worry, it's good luck.
Etymology: deficate-ariel-love
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COMMENTS:
- Hjason, 2006-12-19: 13:40:00
I share my deficarielove with all of you wonderful participants in the parade. Don't worry, it is good luck. - Hjason, 2006-12-20: 09:28:00
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Comments:
Crapatulation
camel - 2006-12-18: 13:38:00
All these nouns & adjectives really irk me; in fact, I'm escafating at the thought of you nounoticists & adjectivists.
ErWenn - 2006-12-18: 13:45:00
This may be a case of a definition carrying too much content. Why the imagining? Why not "To drop your best wishes on everyone, as a peace dove or pigeon"? Or maybe just "To poop on someone, as a dove or pigeon"? You can always elaborate the circumstances in the little comic (which always amuses me, by the way).
ErWenn - 2006-12-18: 13:46:00
I like the new set-up as far as it hides voting results and rankings and how it randomizes the words, but it'd be nice if I could get a list of all the words submitted. Otherwise, I keep hitting "More..." over and over again, just in case I missed one randomly.
gwenaverill - 2006-12-18: 14:51:00
Definitely. Also, I'm having a hard time finding the results now, even for words I've already voted on.
gwenaverill - 2006-12-18: 14:53:00
You know something else that might work well? Have a time window for submitting verboticisms and a different time window for voting on them. For example, we submit the definitions of this word all day today, and then new words cannot be created, and tomorrow we vote on all the entries at the same time as we create the next verboticism. It would cut down on the "early bird" syndrome in voting.
Hey ErWenn and Gwenaverill, Thanks for your comments! We are in the early days of the game so we appreciate your suggestions. We will make a complete list verboticisims available, and we are workinfg on the timing. Thanks ~ James