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DEFINITION: To imagine that you are peace dove, or maybe a pigeon, flying high above the crowd and dropping your best wishes on everyone.
Verboticisms
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Phantasmashaplop
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /fan-'tas-m&-sh&-"plop/
Sentence: Samuel hated his job at the Pentagon, and often he would doze at his desk, phantasmashaplopping the hours away visualizing himself as a bald eagle, shaplopping all over his bloodthirsty coworkers.
Etymology: from phantasm, an illusory mental image + shaplop, to drop your peace wishes on someone (from shalom + plop)
Tirdbombbird
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: terd-bohm-bird
Sentence: That tirdbombbird sure left a mark in my jacket!
Etymology: tird+bomb+bird
Poopspotting
Created by: LenhardtLac
Pronunciation: /PhPSPaTN'/
Sentence: Yaaakkk! I've been poopspotted by a flock of seagulls!
Etymology: ...no, I don't have to explain...
Gravituity
Created by: DarthWader
Pronunciation: grav ih two ih tee
Sentence: Jonathan (Livingston Seagull) and his compatriots flew high above the Christmas vacationers on the beaches below, bestowing ample holiday gravituity for all to enjoy.
Etymology: gravity (the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth) + gratuity (present, gift)
Cognocolomboamopaxscatus
Created by: neilly
Pronunciation: cogno-col-om-bo-amo-pax-scatus
Sentence: Roger was sick to death of rude shoppers who had forgot the meaning of Christmas, so he went for a coffee and day-dreamed about a wilful act of cognocolomboamopaxscatus.
Etymology: cogitare (latin, to think or imagine); columba (latin, dove); amo (latin, love); pax (latin, peace); scatus, sounds a bit like scat.
Dovebailing
Created by: chuck
Pronunciation: Duv-bay-ling
Sentence:
Etymology: A take on "dovetail," but the dove is dropping or "bailing" its best wishes.
Featherllucinate
Created by: jeremiahbritt
Pronunciation: feh-ther-lew-sih-nayt
Sentence: Michael liked to spend his lunch hour featherllucinating, especially around bald men and babies.
Etymology: Feather+hallucinate
Dovepooping
Created by: meiyas
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My favourite pastime when queuing at christmas shops is dovepooping
Etymology: dove + poop
Comments:
Crapatulation
camel - 2006-12-18: 13:38:00
All these nouns & adjectives really irk me; in fact, I'm escafating at the thought of you nounoticists & adjectivists.
ErWenn - 2006-12-18: 13:45:00
This may be a case of a definition carrying too much content. Why the imagining? Why not "To drop your best wishes on everyone, as a peace dove or pigeon"? Or maybe just "To poop on someone, as a dove or pigeon"? You can always elaborate the circumstances in the little comic (which always amuses me, by the way).
ErWenn - 2006-12-18: 13:46:00
I like the new set-up as far as it hides voting results and rankings and how it randomizes the words, but it'd be nice if I could get a list of all the words submitted. Otherwise, I keep hitting "More..." over and over again, just in case I missed one randomly.
gwenaverill - 2006-12-18: 14:51:00
Definitely. Also, I'm having a hard time finding the results now, even for words I've already voted on.
gwenaverill - 2006-12-18: 14:53:00
You know something else that might work well? Have a time window for submitting verboticisms and a different time window for voting on them. For example, we submit the definitions of this word all day today, and then new words cannot be created, and tomorrow we vote on all the entries at the same time as we create the next verboticism. It would cut down on the "early bird" syndrome in voting.
Hey ErWenn and Gwenaverill, Thanks for your comments! We are in the early days of the game so we appreciate your suggestions. We will make a complete list verboticisims available, and we are workinfg on the timing. Thanks ~ James