The create-a-word game
Verbotomist's Delight
This is a Darwinian greenhouse. To see the top verboticisms for each definition, visit the archives on the Verbotomy Blog.
DEFINITION: To reject a compliment. May indicate low self-esteem, or false modesty, or even a psychopathic aversion to flattery.
DEFINITION: A conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of, one-half of a telephone conversation.
DEFINITION: To share information without understanding the difference between what should be public, and what others consider to be private.
DEFINITION: To talk to yourself in a high-pitched, squeaky voice while performing complex mental gymnastics.
DEFINITION: To change the dates, times or sequence of past events, in order to put a better perspective on your current situation.
DEFINITION: Something, or someone, that appears to be warm and fuzzy but is, when you get close, sharp and prickly.
DEFINITION: A "natural process" which, smokers believe, makes cigarette butts magically disappear.
DEFINITION: The prescribed response of shock and denial that all world-class athletes follow when caught using banned drugs.
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