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DEFINITION: v. To engage in an emotional debate over the small, yet somehow surprisingly important details in a simple game. n. An emotional game player

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Minisculoquacity

Created by: sedatedeyes209

Pronunciation: min·us·cu·lo·quac·i·ty

Sentence: Congressmen must have mastered using minisculoquacity in order to sound educated but that practice only shows that the opposite.

Etymology: ~Miniscule + *Loquacity ~Very small; tiny *The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity.

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Scrabpler

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: skrab plur

Sentence: Marvin played Scrabble every Saturday night with his friends. He tried to cheat, made up words and got passionately argumentative when his friends challenged him. The official Scrabble dictionary was always consulted, but Marvin insisted that they did not have all the words in it yet, as the language was constantly evolving. He was a scrabpler for sure, but his friends suspected his verbal diarrhea and intellectual constipation were more due to his IVS... Irritable Vowel Syndrome!

Etymology: Scrabble (a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game) & Scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting)

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Winsist

Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: Win-sisst

Sentence: Newlywed Debbie winsisted when her husband Ben tried to play "woethario" on the board. It ended in weddoplexy.

Etymology: Win + insist + resist

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COMMENTS:

Perfect. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-28: 14:05:00

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Quiglify

Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: quig-li-fy

Sentence: I hardly ever play Scrabble without quiglifying every little letter.

Etymology: "Quibble" + "niggle" + "-ify" for aesthetic concerns.

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Fatuasurdial

Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: fat-chew-a-sir-jel

Sentence: he got all factuasurdial on me and read all the directions in a high pitched squeel

Etymology: fatuous + absurd +emotional

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Bloodplayer

Created by: Koekbroer

Pronunciation: blud-plae-yer

Sentence: "I am done playing Doug. I can't take all his yelling anymore. He is a total bloodplayer"

Etymology: blood; play

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Pettyfours

Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: pet-ee-foh-rs

Sentence: his pettyfours made his partner cringe and wish that the game of tic tac toe would be soon over.

Etymology: petty- from french petit meaning small

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Tourneyburny

Created by: serickson

Pronunciation: tur' nee bur nee

Sentence: Shari's' tourneyburny made playing chess with her a real downer.

Etymology: tourney- from tournament, and -burny from burning with rage

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Dramejah

Created by: ArtistInTraining

Pronunciation: dram-jaw

Sentence: john can sometime's be big dramejah when he is starting to lose. he over reacts all the time!

Etymology: drame - french for drama jah - from jue (french for game)

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Scrabblividity

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: skrab bel liv id it ee

Sentence: Sheldon was a poor sport when he played board games. He cheated and intimidiated his partners and got mad when he lost. His scrabblividity usually resulted in shouting matches. It was suspected that he had vowel trouble...

Etymology: Scrabble (board game like crossword) & Lividity (a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored)

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Comments:

petaj petaj - 2007-03-28: 05:25:00
Glad to see a definition coming out of the cheatedebate that went on the other day :-)

Bulletchewer - 2007-03-28: 06:26:00
Give a brother some credit for that one.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-10-15: 03:18:00
Today's definition was suggested by Alchemist. Thank you Alchemist. ~ James