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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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Dreamdropping
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: dream-drop-ping
Sentence: Sally dreamt she was a bird, soaring high over crowds and dreamdropping her special gifts upon their heads.
Etymology: dream + dropping
Merderer
Created by: oohisay
Pronunciation: mare-dur-ur
Sentence: Johnny likes to think of himself as a merderer of peace.
Etymology: merde--french for shit
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COMMENTS:
Obviously your french classes didn't go to waste. Tres bien mot! - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 21:50:00
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Squabnik
Created by: Madamemojo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Like a peacenik only avian.
Etymology:
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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Crapsody
Created by: torgone
Pronunciation: krap-so-dee
Sentence: I was awakened from my crapsody by a loud noise.
Etymology: crap + rhapsody
Imagiscation
Created by: maker
Pronunciation: E-madgee-scation
Sentence: Suddenly someone interrupted my imagiscation.
Etymology: Imagination + Scat
Peacepoo
Created by: chrisk2k7
Pronunciation: pee-cee poo
Sentence:
Etymology: peace + poo
Craptize
Created by: Partario
Pronunciation: Crap-ti-z
Sentence: That bird gave me such a craptize
Etymology: From teh word crap - to excrete and from Surprize - to shock
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
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