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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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Guanogreetings
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: gwono/greet/ings
Sentence: As the bird of paradise swooped to catch a colorful chord of deep and heart-rending sentiment from the holiday singers below, he couldn't help but let loose a load of garish guanogreetings.
Etymology: guano: ornithological ordure + greetings: sentimental salutations
Paxirun
Created by: Mirandala
Pronunciation: pax-ee-run
Sentence: I dreamed I was soaring high above the holiday crowds, when, suddenly, overwhelmed by all the peace and joy, I got a nasty case of the paxiruns.
Etymology: pax + runs
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COMMENTS:
Made me laugh - wordmeister, 2006-12-18: 10:03:00
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Guanoodle
Created by: legman
Pronunciation: goo-ahn-oodle rhymes with noodle.
Sentence: The pigion guanoodled me as I walked under the tree.
Etymology: root: guano
Holydump
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: Ho-lee-dump
Sentence: If only everyone could get a holydump, this world would be a better place.
Etymology: To dump holyness and peace on someone.
Daycream
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation: dey-kreem
Sentence: Sitting in his cubicle the night before Christmas, he stared out the window and daycreamed his boss's luxury car.
Etymology: daydream + cream
Soarfecate
Created by: wniffene
Pronunciation: Soar-fuh-cate
Sentence: This crowd is getting on my nerves I wish I could soarfecate on all of them.
Etymology: Soar+Defecate
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