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DEFINITION: v. To suddenly discover that your most troublesome personality defect, for which you have been taking medication and/or therapy, is actually your greatest asset. n. A perceived weakness which is actually a strength.
Verboticisms
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Epiphaclick
Created by: bubbos
Pronunciation: e-pi-fa-click
Sentence: Tom acknowledges that Sally's stubbornness as an epifaclick for her career.
Etymology: epiphany + click, for it all to click in
Disabenefit
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Diss-ah-ben-ah-fet
Sentence: I was surprised to realize that my "anger problem" is a disabenefit that could make me tons of money. Dressing up as made-up people for "The Jerry Springer Show" is easy!
Etymology: Disability (defect) + benefit (an asset)
Faultitude
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: fawlt-it-tood
Sentence: She displayed her stalking practices daily with her staff, sneaking up behind them, checking her watch each time she saw them away from their cubicles chit chatting with coworkers. This behaviour became her faultitude and discovered she should become a private investigator.
Etymology: fault (flaw, imperfection) + fortitude (mental and emotional strength when facing difficulty, adversity)
Handycap
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: han-dee-capp
Sentence:
Etymology: handy, handicap
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COMMENTS:
Very apt and capped a good day's verboting. - scrabbelicious, 2009-07-31: 15:22:00
Nice Flo to it! - scrabbelicious, 2009-07-31: 15:24:00
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Ephobany
Created by: weyrlady
Pronunciation: e-fo-ban-e
Sentence: It was such an ephobany to realize he actually loved me for my friggatriskaidekaphobia.
Etymology: A combination of "epiphany" and "phobia".
Benifit
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: ben + ih + fit
Sentence: My epilepsy gets me a lot of work in industrial blending applications, so it's turned out to be a benifit.
Etymology: bene + fit (only I spelled it with an "i" instead of the second e, to distinguish it from the original word).
Faultility
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: fawl-TIL-i-tee
Sentence: Madeline's faultility was her incessant nose-blowing. Her husband thought of divorcing her, but she was such an amazing duck call.
Etymology: fault + utility
Flawntit
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: flawnt-it
Sentence: Cherie really started marketing herself when she realised her flawntit gave her an oddvantage over the other candidates.
Etymology: flaw + If you've got it flaunt it.
Handycap
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: han dee kap
Sentence: at the Outside the Box employment agency they help change a handicap to a handycap, one person's OCD sufferer is another person's cleaner/office manager/proof reader.
Etymology: handicap, handy
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COMMENTS:
love it - remistram, 2007-06-25: 14:37:00
Voted! - Clayton, 2007-06-25: 21:15:00
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Comments:
This is a Verbotomy Classic -- one of our favorites from the past. If you have already created a word for this definition, and want to try a new challenge try our new Verbotomy Text. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-25: 11:55:00
Hey James, the Show All view doesn't show all. I like the Daily Stats better.
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-25: 12:04:00
Points aren't working either. I got 8. Did a word, pronunciation, etymology, and voted.
Show all is working now. I'm working on the scoring. ~ James
The score is now updated properly ~ James
wordmeister - 2007-06-29: 00:39:00
good
jrogan - 2009-07-31: 10:16:00
It was hard to write a sentence for this one...
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