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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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Ploffany
Created by: KliCk5000
Pronunciation: Plo (as in blow) ffany (as in funny)
Sentence: I was in a state of ploffany while waiting in line for the movie, as though I was higher than everyone else.
Etymology: Latin for the state of being high. (Not really)
Ornitholohgee
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: awr nith oll oh geee
Sentence: he parroted on and on til he was silenced by a well placed ornathologee
Etymology: ornithology oh gee
Wishit
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: wi-sht
Sentence: While I was doing my speech I was wishting the crowd.
Etymology: wish + sit
Tannenbomber
Created by: ipmcleod
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was momentarily angry about the black BMW convertible that hijacked my parking spot, but then I saw the pigeons in the tree above it and knew that he would be tannenbombed.
Etymology: Tannenbaum (German for Giftmas tree) + bomber (postmodern Urbanian for bird above you)
Altruision
Created by: Rocky
Pronunciation: all|true|is|shun
Sentence: In order to excrete good will onto the heads of the masses, first you must altruision yourself as monstrously large blue pigeon.
Etymology: altruism | Envision
Delusidumping
Created by: torgo
Pronunciation: dell-oo-si-dumping
Sentence: A: "i had a dream where i was delusidumping." B: "Thats funny, i had a dream where i got delusidumped on. maybe it was you!"
Etymology: "delus" - links to delusion, as in imagining things. also to deluge, as in an a flood of guano. dumping is pretty self-explanatory.
Peacepot
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: pisspot
Sentence: A pigeon overhead might cause you to hear a splat, a dove, a peacepot
Etymology: the symbol of peace spreads pot luck
Tirdbombbird
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: terd-bohm-bird
Sentence: That tirdbombbird sure left a mark in my jacket!
Etymology: tird+bomb+bird
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