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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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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
Bombird
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: bom-berd
Sentence: As he looked at all his colleagues in the law firm, and thought about what he'd like to give them for Christmas,his mind began to bomberd at an unprecendented rate
Etymology: bombard + bird
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COMMENTS:
bombastic word! - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 10:05:00
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Aerialms
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: airy-alms
Sentence: Don't lose hope, aerialms are on the way.
Etymology: Aerial meaning sky and alms meaning gift.
Tirdbombbird
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: terd-bohm-bird
Sentence: That tirdbombbird sure left a mark in my jacket!
Etymology: tird+bomb+bird
Squabnik
Created by: Madamemojo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Like a peacenik only avian.
Etymology:
Oneiromookulation
Created by: pegritz
Pronunciation: oh-NEER-oh-mook-yoo-LAY-shun
Sentence: Every year around the holidays I find myself lost in pleasant fantasies of oneiromookulation.
Etymology: oneiro (Greek. dream) + mook (the doodoo) + ulation (uhhh...the doing of something).
Celexcremate
Created by: Pythias
Pronunciation: ce - lex' - cre - mate
Sentence: Birds of joy will hover near and celexcremate a merry cheer.
Etymology: celebrate + excrement
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