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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.

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Aviethotic

Created by: Aioua

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I'm feeling rather aviethotic today.

Etymology:

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Coolide

Created by: skelk

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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)

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Hitluck

Created by: tsukishimamonja

Pronunciation: htlk

Sentence:

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Peacepooping

munki

Created by: munki

Pronunciation: peace-pooping

Sentence: Little Johnny wished he could give the crowd at the mall a good peacepooping.

Etymology: peace + pooping

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Featherllucinate

jeremiahbritt

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

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Psychornithocrapulence

Created by: vainglorious11

Pronunciation: S-eye-k-or-nih-th-oh-k-rap-you-l-en-ss

Sentence: Waiting in the massive line for the boxing day sale, I caught myself in a bout of psychornithocrapulence.

Etymology: Psych- for mental, ornitho- for bird-related, and crapulence for, well, crap.

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COMMENTS:

This particular case might be better termed "caterval (crowd-related) psychornithocrapulence. - vainglorious11, 2006-12-18: 19:31:00

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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

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Delusidumping

Created by: torgo

Pronunciation: dell-oo-si-dumping

Sentence: A: "i had a dream where i was delusidumping." B: "Thats funny, i had a dream where i got delusidumped on. maybe it was you!"

Etymology: "delus" - links to delusion, as in imagining things. also to deluge, as in an a flood of guano. dumping is pretty self-explanatory.

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Contempoop

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: con-ten-poop

Sentence: As the driver cut him off and nabbed the parking spot he was clearly waiting for, Bob contempooped laying a big one on the driver's shiny bald head.

Etymology: contemplate, poop

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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