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'I'm in love with these shoes.'

DEFINITION: v. To have a favorite article of clothing with which you develop a personal, and even a deeply fulfilling, relationship. n. A much loved article of clothing.

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Apparaholicism

aly22

Created by: aly22

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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Vestonan

Created by: iplaytool

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I've got a real vestonan for this silk shirt; it feels so nice and gives me good luck.

Etymology: vesti - clothing onanism - masturbation

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Squirrelivitis

Created by: puregoofy27

Pronunciation: skwerl/i/vit/is

Sentence: Wearing shoes made from a gerbil maybe a compulsive disease known as "Squirrelivits".

Etymology: Squirrel+ivitis = A squirrelly mentality.

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Clothoniphilate

Created by: krinthox

Pronunciation: kloh-THON-ih-fil-ayt

Sentence: Although my parents tell me that my shirt is too small, and that I must get rid of it, I can not help but keep it as I clothoniphilated with it long ago.

Etymology: cloth [as in clothes, tablecloth, etc...] -phil [loving of something] -ate [forms a verb]

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Weaventine

Created by: cryptc

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Jerry the weaventine fell madly in love with the wonderful fabric that the sweater was made from.

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Fashionation

Created by: babel

Pronunciation: fash-un-aysh-un

Sentence: Jenny had an uncontrollable and unfortunate fashionation with a glove that had once been discarded by Michael Jackson.

Etymology: fashion + fascination

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COMMENTS:

hey babel, that's a fashionating word! - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 11:07:00

poor michael jackson... - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 11:07:00

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Objecated

Created by: missparaguay1991

Pronunciation: /objec/ like english objec and /ated/ like the suffix in the same language

Sentence: I'm absolutely objecated with my new wardrobe, can't stop touching it... sometimes I even hide inside of it for hours. It feels so good!

Etymology: objecated (adj.) 2006 from /objec/ from English 'object' meaning thing, stuff +/ated/ as in termination for past verbal tense meaning 'already with, already done, already in to'

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Monoclothingphila

ennia

Created by: ennia

Pronunciation: Mono-Clothing- Philia

Sentence: My sister had serious monoclothingphila with her mini skirt.

Etymology:

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Uncloathing

Created by: Argot

Pronunciation: Un + clothing

Sentence: Her romantic hopes were dashed when she happened upon his uncloathing.

Etymology: not + clothing + loathe

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Outfetish

Created by: sfts2

Pronunciation: out-fet-ish

Sentence: I have an outfetish for that suit.

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Comments:

Jonno - 2006-12-14: 04:40:00
Hi all! New to this and it's fun, but here's my 3 cents worth... 1. Placing the most voted-for words at the top of the list biases the voting. 2. Words entered earlier are subject to more votes. Could you not take all the entries before voting begins? Or have voting for yesterday's word while today's definitions are open? 3. You should add the part of speech to the definition (verb, noun, etc). I think the celeverer words are the ones which match the definition. 4. Please make these comment boxes a bit bigger! Thanks, Jon.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-14: 09:25:00
Hey Jonno, Thanks for your suggestions. They are all good! We are working on way to divide players/words into smaller groups, which will change the way verboticisms are listed, and the way voting happens. Stay tuned... In terms of the "part of speech", we actually had that in earlier, but took it out because people didn't like it. We could add it back... What do you guys think? Thanks for playing! ~ James

ErWenn - 2006-12-14: 12:14:00
I've just joined, and so far, every definition has been for a verb, but most of them lend themselves better to nouns. For example, it's easier to name a disease or condition than it is to give a word that describes succumbing to such a condition. Most of the winning words are nouns, as you can see. I think you should either formally open it up for any part of speech communicating the idea, choose the part of speech for each definition more carefully, or strictly enforce matching the part of speech of the definition.

philip - 2006-12-14: 12:31:00
Nice idea, look forward to playing :) Agree with Jonno on all points, especially the problem that entries made earlier will automatically get more votes...

verbatul - 2006-12-14: 12:35:00
James, the parts of speech is a great idea! It seems that we have a lot of clever people suggesting words so I don't think any creativity will be suffer. In fact, it may inspire more ingenuity. Great game!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-14: 12:58:00
I think that we might take a tip from ErWenn keep it formally open to all parts of speech, but then allow players to create variants for specific part of speech (e.g, a verb, a noun, an adj,) and award bonus points for the extra creativity. ~ James

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