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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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Contemguantribute
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: con-tem-guan-tri-bUt
Sentence: Jane was stuck in line at the airport security, late for her plane with no power to do anything about it, all that was left for her was a special gift for the NSA: contemguantribution. After all it is the thought that counts, right.
Etymology: contem(plate), guan(o), (retri/contri)tribution
Bluebirdism
Created by: serjion
Pronunciation: bluu-bird-ism
Sentence: Our boss has is struck by bluebirdism today: he gives away bonuses.
Etymology: from "blue-bird", a bird of happiness, name of a tale of Maurice Maeterlink
Holydump
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: Ho-lee-dump
Sentence: If only everyone could get a holydump, this world would be a better place.
Etymology: To dump holyness and peace on someone.
Imashitation
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: as in E. ima -doo -tation
Sentence: dooting over your boss? Your imadootation has no limits!
Etymology: imadootation /ima/ from E imagination + /shit/ from E shit + /ation/ suffix
Fantaecise
Created by: attis
Pronunciation: Like it sounds
Sentence: As Eric watched the proselytisers on the corner from his office window he fantaecised.
Etymology: Fantacise + faeces
Pigtionalize
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: pidge-on-a-laiz
Sentence: Harry always had others in mind - he frequently pigtionalized people he didn't like.
Etymology: pidgeon (bird) + fictionalize (to make something fictional)
Oneiromookulation
Created by: pegritz
Pronunciation: oh-NEER-oh-mook-yoo-LAY-shun
Sentence: Every year around the holidays I find myself lost in pleasant fantasies of oneiromookulation.
Etymology: oneiro (Greek. dream) + mook (the doodoo) + ulation (uhhh...the doing of something).
Dovebailing
Created by: chuck
Pronunciation: Duv-bay-ling
Sentence:
Etymology: A take on "dovetail," but the dove is dropping or "bailing" its best wishes.
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