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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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Fealicity
Created by: beast
Pronunciation: Fair-li-city
Sentence: The fealicity formed by the doves in the sky made the soldiers feel a sense of warmth and peace on Christmas's eve.
Etymology: Feather + Felicity
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.
Dovebailing
Created by: chuck
Pronunciation: Duv-bay-ling
Sentence:
Etymology: A take on "dovetail," but the dove is dropping or "bailing" its best wishes.
Paratoot
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: par-uh-toot
Sentence: Look it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... bird. They say it's good luck when you are paratooted on.
Etymology: [French : para(sol), parasol, parachute parasol + toot] toot: horn, whistle; drunken revelry; slang: lavatory, toilet.
Pigtionalize
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: pidge-on-a-laiz
Sentence: Harry always had others in mind - he frequently pigtionalized people he didn't like.
Etymology: pidgeon (bird) + fictionalize (to make something fictional)
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
Deckthehallsafecate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dek-the-halls-ah-fah-cayt
Sentence: Full of holiday cheer and spicy curry but unable to leave the meeting, Alan was forced to deckthehallsafecate
Etymology: deck the halls, defecate
Cognijoyping
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: COG-nee-joy-ing
Sentence: I always can be found cognojoyping the day before christmas at the busiest department stores!
Etymology: cognitive=thought, joy=happiness, and ping comes from droppings....as in bird droppings :)
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COMMENTS:
When you break it down this word really has every part of the definition in it, not just some of them... - Javeson1, 2006-12-18: 00:44:00
Yeah that's true --- maybe your missing the flying... but you do have the 'pings - jrogan, 2006-12-18: 00:51:00
well, dropping implies flying... :) - Javeson1, 2006-12-29: 00:45:00
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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)
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