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'Who wants a white christmas?'

DEFINITION: To imagine that you are peace dove, or maybe a pigeon, flying high above the crowd and dropping your best wishes on everyone.

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Squabnik

Created by: Madamemojo

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Like a peacenik only avian.

Etymology:

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Ploffany

Created by: KliCk5000

Pronunciation: Plo (as in blow) ffany (as in funny)

Sentence: I was in a state of ploffany while waiting in line for the movie, as though I was higher than everyone else.

Etymology: Latin for the state of being high. (Not really)

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Hiphigistic

Created by: ElBuro

Pronunciation: HIF-ee-GIS-TIK

Sentence: "She stared at the sky with a look of hiphigistic pleasure on her face."

Etymology: Don't ask.

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Birdwishing

Created by: Abbers

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Daycream

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation: dey-kreem

Sentence: Sitting in his cubicle the night before Christmas, he stared out the window and daycreamed his boss's luxury car.

Etymology: daydream + cream

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Fffffwhaptasize

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Jason was loitering outside the arena when he was suddenly trapped by people leaving a Star Trek convention, causing him to fffffwhaptasize about plastering their pointy Vulcan heads.

Etymology:

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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

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Fantasheise

Created by: jagrubb

Pronunciation: fan-tuh-shy-zuh

Sentence: I could fantasheise as I was looking at the birds above us.

Etymology:

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Birgify

Created by: Windyo

Pronunciation: Buh/rgih/fye

Sentence: I often birgify when louts crowd onto me

Etymology: From "bird", "gift" and with a verbal ending to it ^^

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Whitebless

Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Amid the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, one makes time to whitebless.

Etymology: White for the colour of a dove, and its droppings. Bless is self-explanitory.

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Comments:

Deadpanlives Deadpanlives - 2006-12-18: 12:55:00
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-18: 17:05:00
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