Vote for the best verboticism.
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.
Verboticisms
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Wrapture
Created by: fmgene
Pronunciation: rap - ture
Sentence: that diane von fustenburg dress sent the assembled audience into wraptures
Etymology: wrap + rapture
Coturamour
Created by: Wriiight
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: coture (high fashion) and amour (love) like in the word paramour
Favomaside
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Fav-vom-aside
Sentence: I have got quite the favomaside with these neon yellow socks with bells attached to the heel. They're like my babies!
Etymology: Favoritism + something with aside in it somewhere...
Garbdor
Created by: haroldbarold
Pronunciation: GARB-dur
Sentence: That hooker's garbdor for her left shoe make me think she use it as a dildo.
Etymology: garb + ardor
Fashionphillic
Created by: NIDWU
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Oh my god that girl adores her shoes so much, she is so fashionphillic
Etymology: Fashionphillic comes from the words Fashion, and Phillic Fashion - an illustration of a clothing style; a person who dresses in the latest fashions Phillic:: having an affinity for : loving.
Bradore
Created by: verbatul
Pronunciation: bra-door
Sentence: Jane bradores her new lingerie.
Etymology: bra + adore
Thunderwear
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: θəndərwār
Sentence: Jeremy has a great difficulty with the concept of growing up. He was practically giddy when he found an icon of his childhood, Thunderwear. That\'s right, ThunderCats Underoos. He Thunderwears them every day. People have been known to Thunderstare in the locker room at the gym but he doesn\'t Thundercare.
Etymology: ThunderCats (ThunderCats is an American animated television series) + underwear (clothing worn under other clothes, typically next to the skin)
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COMMENTS:
He must have a hard time finding ones that go up over his thunderthighs. - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-04: 05:57:00
The Thunder down under! - Nosila, 2009-08-04: 16:28:00
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Apparelish
Created by: golux13
Pronunciation: ap-puh-REL-ish
Sentence: Bob apparelished his Grateful Dead t-shirt because it was signed by Jerry Garcia.
Etymology:
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.
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!
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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