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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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Hesculate
Created by: oddnuance
Pronunciation: Hess-q-late
Sentence: While staring down from the empire state building, I found myself hesculating.
Etymology:
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)
Deficatiding
Created by: walkingdistraction
Pronunciation: def-ih-cate-ide-ing
Sentence: Those jolly pigeons are deficatiding all over my freshly washed car! Happy Holidays to you too!
Etymology: deficate+tiding (as in: tidings of good cheer)
Dovepooping
Created by: meiyas
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My favourite pastime when queuing at christmas shops is dovepooping
Etymology: dove + poop
Benefecation
Created by: Pipeski
Pronunciation: Ben-eff-i-kay-shum
Sentence: Thanks to the donations of many generous benefecators the gentlemen's conveniences were somewhat malodorous.
Etymology: benediction+defecation
Crapdream
Created by: norsehorse
Pronunciation: Crap-Dream
Sentence: Whoah I just had a Crapdream
Etymology: Crap and dream
Gifturd
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Gif-turd
Sentence: As I was looking for a present for my wife, I looked up and ended up with a gifturd in my eye.
Etymology: Obviously gift+turd
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COMMENTS:
Did you share that gift? - jrogan, 2006-12-18: 00:52:00
The gift that keeps on giving... - johnnyrockett, 2006-12-18: 20:47:00
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Birdimify
Created by: hvhtim
Pronunciation: BUR-dih-mih-fy
Sentence: i wanted to birdimify myself when i saw the line for santa at the mall.
Etymology: bird, -imify
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COMMENTS:
good one Hvhtim! I feel the same way - jrogan, 2006-12-18: 00:41:00
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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