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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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Guanogreetings
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: gwono/greet/ings
Sentence: As the bird of paradise swooped to catch a colorful chord of deep and heart-rending sentiment from the holiday singers below, he couldn't help but let loose a load of garish guanogreetings.
Etymology: guano: ornithological ordure + greetings: sentimental salutations
Dovebailing
Created by: chuck
Pronunciation: Duv-bay-ling
Sentence:
Etymology: A take on "dovetail," but the dove is dropping or "bailing" its best wishes.
Dovepooping
Created by: meiyas
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My favourite pastime when queuing at christmas shops is dovepooping
Etymology: dove + poop
Squabnik
Created by: Madamemojo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Like a peacenik only avian.
Etymology:
Flighpoopering
Created by: xshadowswimmer08x
Pronunciation: fly-poop-er-ing
Sentence: I was daydreaming I was flypoopering in NY.
Etymology: Flight/poop
Pacifoul
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pas/uh/fowl
Sentence: Just released as 1 of the 143 doves at the opening of the Olympic games, I was determined to pacifoul the stadium crowd.
Etymology: pacify + foul
Lumdaploomt
Created by: msokoloffster
Pronunciation: Luhm - DA - ploomt
Sentence: I often lumdaploomt during class.
Etymology: Unknown...
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
Hesculate
Created by: oddnuance
Pronunciation: Hess-q-late
Sentence: While staring down from the empire state building, I found myself hesculating.
Etymology:
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