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DEFINITION: v. To have a favorite article of clothing with which you develop a personal, and even a deeply fulfilling, relationship. n. A much loved article of clothing.
Verboticisms
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Regaliove
Created by: GhostShip
Pronunciation: ree gay lee uv
Sentence: Wow you must really regaliove that sweater... do you ever take it off?
Etymology: regalia + love
Wrapture
Created by: fmgene
Pronunciation: rap - ture
Sentence: that diane von fustenburg dress sent the assembled audience into wraptures
Etymology: wrap + rapture
Fashiophilia
Created by: daveleack
Pronunciation: fash e o filia
Sentence: My girlfriend suffers from fashiophilia. She's made up back stories for each of her pairs of shoes. Pretty detailed histories that she can't help but recount at parties.
Etymology: From fashion (popular clothing styles) and philia (having a deep fondness for)
Gearpetting
Created by: andystephenson
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She always wears that jacket! I think she's gearpetting...
Etymology: Gear (clothes) petting
Fashionphillic
Created by: NIDWU
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Oh my god that girl adores her shoes so much, she is so fashionphillic
Etymology: Fashionphillic comes from the words Fashion, and Phillic Fashion - an illustration of a clothing style; a person who dresses in the latest fashions Phillic:: having an affinity for : loving.
Dresstress
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dress/tress
Sentence: His wife found out about his dresstress when she saw him carrying on with his Hugo Boss suit.
Etymology: dress + mistress
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COMMENTS:
Is this autobiographical? nice mash-up! - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 15:12:00
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Gardent
Created by: Tesla
Pronunciation: gar - dent
Sentence: Jim had always had a special gardent for his spiderman boxers.
Etymology: Garment + ardent
Wardrobsession
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: WAR-drobe-ses-SHUN
Sentence: "My sister has a total wardrobsession with that scarf; she wears it everywhere!"
Etymology: Wardrobe + Obsession... pretty simple, really
Comments:
Jonno - 2006-12-14: 04:40:00
Hi all! New to this and it's fun, but here's my 3 cents worth... 1. Placing the most voted-for words at the top of the list biases the voting. 2. Words entered earlier are subject to more votes. Could you not take all the entries before voting begins? Or have voting for yesterday's word while today's definitions are open? 3. You should add the part of speech to the definition (verb, noun, etc). I think the celeverer words are the ones which match the definition. 4. Please make these comment boxes a bit bigger! Thanks, Jon.
Hey Jonno, Thanks for your suggestions. They are all good! We are working on way to divide players/words into smaller groups, which will change the way verboticisms are listed, and the way voting happens. Stay tuned... In terms of the "part of speech", we actually had that in earlier, but took it out because people didn't like it. We could add it back... What do you guys think? Thanks for playing! ~ James
ErWenn - 2006-12-14: 12:14:00
I've just joined, and so far, every definition has been for a verb, but most of them lend themselves better to nouns. For example, it's easier to name a disease or condition than it is to give a word that describes succumbing to such a condition. Most of the winning words are nouns, as you can see. I think you should either formally open it up for any part of speech communicating the idea, choose the part of speech for each definition more carefully, or strictly enforce matching the part of speech of the definition.
philip - 2006-12-14: 12:31:00
Nice idea, look forward to playing :) Agree with Jonno on all points, especially the problem that entries made earlier will automatically get more votes...
verbatul - 2006-12-14: 12:35:00
James, the parts of speech is a great idea! It seems that we have a lot of clever people suggesting words so I don't think any creativity will be suffer. In fact, it may inspire more ingenuity. Great game!
I think that we might take a tip from ErWenn keep it formally open to all parts of speech, but then allow players to create variants for specific part of speech (e.g, a verb, a noun, an adj,) and award bonus points for the extra creativity. ~ James
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