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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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Tannenbomber
Created by: ipmcleod
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was momentarily angry about the black BMW convertible that hijacked my parking spot, but then I saw the pigeons in the tree above it and knew that he would be tannenbombed.
Etymology: Tannenbaum (German for Giftmas tree) + bomber (postmodern Urbanian for bird above you)
Transdoving
Created by: breastplate
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was totally transdoving the other day and I was happy because I hadn't done it recently.
Etymology:
Bowelizing
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: BOW-EL-EYE-ZING
Sentence: As I flew over the masses, I used the baptism of bowelizing.
Etymology: To release certain fluids of joy over a crowd or group of people.
Squirtfantaflyze
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: squirt-fanta-flyze
Sentence: Standing in line, I squirtfantaflyzed, concentrating on aiming at the annoying woman in back of me.
Etymology: fantasize + flying + squirting
Corpodreamo
Created by: CaptPoco
Pronunciation: Corp-o-dream-o
Sentence: Paul woke up Alice from her corpodreamo.
Etymology: Copro- is a Greek prefix meaning "relating to feces". Dream is dream. The "o" is added to make it rhyming.
Unmentavianurea
Created by: paperpieces
Pronunciation: un-men-tay-vee-an-yer-ee-ah
Sentence: Sometimes when I am mad at someone I think of unmentavianurea just to imagine poo on his or her head.
Etymology: Un- meaning not, ment- meaning mental, avian meaning bird, urea...feces
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
Avianfever
Created by: erwalter
Pronunciation: a·vi·an·fe·ver
Sentence: She would often sit and daydream about coming down with avianfever so that she could leave all her worries behind.
Etymology: avian-bird; fever-illness or like
Dreamdropping
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: dream-drop-ping
Sentence: Sally dreamt she was a bird, soaring high over crowds and dreamdropping her special gifts upon their heads.
Etymology: dream + dropping
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