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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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Poologium
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: poo-lo-ji-um
Sentence: i delivered my poologium to the masses from on high
Etymology: poo (faeces) eulogium (praise)
Pigtionalize
Created by: Krixwell
Pronunciation: pidge-on-a-laiz
Sentence: Harry always had others in mind - he frequently pigtionalized people he didn't like.
Etymology: pidgeon (bird) + fictionalize (to make something fictional)
Scatacism
Created by: Fristine
Pronunciation: skat-tuh-kism
Sentence: That pigeon served up a holiday scatacism!
Etymology: scat- a word for wildlife poop acism-refers to catholic rituals
Fealicity
Created by: beast
Pronunciation: Fair-li-city
Sentence: The fealicity formed by the doves in the sky made the soldiers feel a sense of warmth and peace on Christmas's eve.
Etymology: Feather + Felicity
Gravituity
Created by: DarthWader
Pronunciation: grav ih two ih tee
Sentence: Jonathan (Livingston Seagull) and his compatriots flew high above the Christmas vacationers on the beaches below, bestowing ample holiday gravituity for all to enjoy.
Etymology: gravity (the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth) + gratuity (present, gift)
Whitebless
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Amid the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, one makes time to whitebless.
Etymology: White for the colour of a dove, and its droppings. Bless is self-explanitory.
Crapoon
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: cra poo n
Sentence: damn! that bird just crapooned on me.
Etymology: from crapping and to boon someone with a gift.
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