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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.

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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

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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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Doveosis

Created by: myss51

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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Squabnik

Created by: Madamemojo

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Like a peacenik only avian.

Etymology:

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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

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Imagiscation

Created by: maker

Pronunciation: E-madgee-scation

Sentence: Suddenly someone interrupted my imagiscation.

Etymology: Imagination + Scat

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Peacepoo

Created by: chrisk2k7

Pronunciation: pee-cee poo

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Etymology: peace + poo

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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

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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

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Comments:

Deadpanlives Deadpanlives - 2006-12-18: 12:55:00
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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-18: 17:05:00
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