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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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Hesculate
Created by: oddnuance
Pronunciation: Hess-q-late
Sentence: While staring down from the empire state building, I found myself hesculating.
Etymology:
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.
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
Pigeonbless
Created by: kevinrio
Pronunciation: Pidge On Bless
Sentence: I am so happy I got pigeonblessed last weekend! It was such a wonderful feeling!
Etymology: Pidgeon + Bless
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.
Craptasy
Created by: Chunk01
Pronunciation: crap/tassy
Sentence: When he daydreamed he would often imagine flying overhead, crapping on the crowds of shoppers below, he was then truly in craptasy.
Etymology: Crap + Fantasy
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COMMENTS:
reads more like crap + ecstasy - fmgene, 2006-12-18: 18:54:00
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Vigeon
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: vig-e-on
Sentence: Johnny had a vigeon of peace, unfortunately he flew into a window.
Etymology: vision+ pigeon
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
Cognocolomboamopaxscatus
Created by: neilly
Pronunciation: cogno-col-om-bo-amo-pax-scatus
Sentence: Roger was sick to death of rude shoppers who had forgot the meaning of Christmas, so he went for a coffee and day-dreamed about a wilful act of cognocolomboamopaxscatus.
Etymology: cogitare (latin, to think or imagine); columba (latin, dove); amo (latin, love); pax (latin, peace); scatus, sounds a bit like scat.
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