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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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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:
Mungibation
Created by: peppahmink
Pronunciation: muhnj' ah bayshun
Sentence: Despite Lyle Lovett's preternaturally vertical hair and other such mungibations, the eccentric singer is considered to be an American classic.
Etymology: Derived from the verb "to munge" meaning to transform data in an unknown way into something otherwise unattainable. A quick fix. The result of a "munge" is a mungibation.
Diffantage
Created by: xshadowswimmer08x
Pronunciation: diff-an-tage
Sentence: My diffantage was that i have gills so i can breathe underwater.
Etymology: different/advantage
Promutation
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: pro-myoo-TA-shun
Sentence: "Fog, my ass," thought Santa, "time to put Ruldolph's promutation to good use..."
Etymology: Pro - opposite of Con; denoting favorability. Mutation - n alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
Diveanterentiating
Created by: erwalter
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: dievant + differentiating
Genetigift
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: jen-et-ick-ift
Sentence: Many considered Lily's tail to be a freak of nature, but she knew it was a genetigift, because she secretly trained herself to be a deadly assassin with it.
Etymology: Genetic + gift
Oddportunity
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: odd-portunity
Sentence: Ralph's freakishly long arms gave him the oddportunity to reach into the u-bend where his wedding ring lay after he dropped it in his drunken stupor.
Etymology: From oddness and opportunity
Mutantpower
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: mu-tant-paw-er
Sentence: Beak was often seen as a freak at school, till he found the use of his mutantpower and joined the X-men.
Etymology: it's sort of been used in comics for about 50 years, so I don't see much new things here...
Heteronomalogenotype
Created by: mantroog
Pronunciation: het-er-o-nom-a-lo-jeen-o-type
Sentence: The elves had never seen a reindeer of that particular heteronomalogenotype.
Etymology: hetero=different, anomaly=abnormality, genotype=genetic constitution
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COMMENTS:
- mantroog, 2006-12-21: 18:08:00
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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