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DEFINITION: A unique physical or psychological trait, which makes one "different". Often seen as a handicap, even if it provides a distinct evolutionary advantage.
Verboticisms
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Mutashun
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: myou-ta-shun
Sentence: Despite being the brunt of many Bigfoot jokes for his overly large feet, Bob didn't mind his mutashun, as he was quite popular with the ladies.
Etymology: mutation, shun
Darwinoscopy
Created by: Nairock
Pronunciation: Dar-win-NOS-cop-ee
Sentence: The extra digit he had on each finger proved to be a most useful Darwinoscopy.
Etymology:
Oddyhook
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: as in /odd - y - hook/
Sentence: My oddyhok is well hidden, can you see that hair inside my ear?
Etymology: from the English odd meaning no pair, and hook from the English hook meaning hook
Embarrassteristic
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: im-bare-iss-ter-is'-tic
Sentence: That unibrow is a total embarrassteristic.
Etymology: embarrass + characteristic
Charactravesty
Created by: Chadcaster
Pronunciation: Car-ak-tra-vesti
Sentence: His huge ears were something of a charactravesty, often upsetting children.
Etymology: from characteristic and travesty
Impedimorphisis
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: im-ped-i-morf-i-sis
Sentence: The raccoons impedimorphisis of an extra long tail at fifst slowed it down, but soon it discovered that it could hang from its tail, giving it the abilty to figth attacking animals with all for limbs from a safe distance
Etymology: impediment + metamorphisis
Upperhandicap
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: uhp-er-han-dee-kap
Sentence: For years, John was taunted because of his enormous head; but his collosal cranium turned out to be an upperhandicap in that he was a genius.
Etymology: upper hand + handicap
Rufnasism
Created by: Topper
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Billy's rufnasist elbow, though large, enabled him to throw the meanest curveball in the league.
Etymology: Latin: Rufus + Nasus, "red nose"
Darwhimian
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: dar/wim/ee/an
Sentence: The Darwhimian Theory of Evolution favors fortunate if not fanciful furry creatures like Rudolph-The-Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Etymology: variation of Darwinian (adj.) of or relating to Charles Darwin, his theories of evolution, or his followers + whim: a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn or mind
Anomolution
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: a-nom-O-LU-shun
Sentence: At first stans 3rd opposable thumb caused much teasing, but as he grew and developed uses for it he found it very helpful. When he grew up and had children he discovered that the thumb was actually anomolution
Etymology: anomolus + eveolution
Comments:
By popular request! A definition which suggests a noun as the solution. But feel free to twist it into a verb, or even an adjective, if you wish! ~ James
kmccardle - 2006-12-21: 15:03:00
So does anyone else not like this new voting set up? I personally much preferred the ranking system, even if this way is perhaps more fair.
chris - 2006-12-21: 16:11:00
Whatever you do still leaves the system open to mates voting for mates no matter how good or bad the word.....but it's just a game so who cares? The fun is from participating (for me, anyway).
Hey kmccardle, the rankings are still here -- but they are not on the front page anymore. You can see the complete list Verboticisms for each definition on the daily stats page. (On the first day this list is presented in alphabetical order. After that, the words are ranked by score.)
The other thing to remember is that this is still an interim measure. We are creating a clustering function which will allow people to play in smaller groups so that there will be more direct interaction and communication between the players. This should be ready for testing in the next week or so... ~ James