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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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Gravituity
Created by: DarthWader
Pronunciation: grav ih two ih tee
Sentence: Jonathan (Livingston Seagull) and his compatriots flew high above the Christmas vacationers on the beaches below, bestowing ample holiday gravituity for all to enjoy.
Etymology: gravity (the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth) + gratuity (present, gift)
Deficatiding
Created by: walkingdistraction
Pronunciation: def-ih-cate-ide-ing
Sentence: Those jolly pigeons are deficatiding all over my freshly washed car! Happy Holidays to you too!
Etymology: deficate+tiding (as in: tidings of good cheer)
Guanoint
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: gwa-noynt
Sentence: If I could be anything in the world that flew, I would be a dove and guanoint you all with poo... (apologies to Lou Reed!)
Etymology: guano + anoint
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 ^^
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:
Dovebailing
Created by: chuck
Pronunciation: Duv-bay-ling
Sentence:
Etymology: A take on "dovetail," but the dove is dropping or "bailing" its best wishes.
Deficarielove
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: defi-care-eel-ove
Sentence: I share my deficarielove with all of you wonderful parade participants. Don't worry, it's good luck.
Etymology: deficate-ariel-love
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COMMENTS:
- Hjason, 2006-12-19: 13:40:00
I share my deficarielove with all of you wonderful participants in the parade. Don't worry, it is good luck. - Hjason, 2006-12-20: 09:28:00
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Contemptlative
Created by: Hobart
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Sitting in the park on a bench, looking at all of those stuck up attractive women, I quickly became contemptlative, considering them screaming ten feet below my flight of doom.
Etymology: Contempt and Contemplative
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