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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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Monoclothingphila
Created by: ennia
Pronunciation: Mono-Clothing- Philia
Sentence: My sister had serious monoclothingphila with her mini skirt.
Etymology:
Compadress
Created by: Lonflobber
Pronunciation: Comp-ah-dress
Sentence: Her compadress fit her like a second skin - a second skin that was closer than even her closest friend.
Etymology: Compadre and Dress
Sentigarmentality
Created by: jboehnker
Pronunciation: sent' i gar' ment al' i tee
Sentence: Bob's friends began to suspect he was taking his sentigarmentality a little too far when they received their invitations to a birthday party for his favorite boxer shorts.
Etymology: sentimentality + garment
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COMMENTS:
This word really captures the meaning. - lauramy, 2006-12-18: 21:30:00
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Psyfabricosis
Created by: elenas
Pronunciation: sigh-fabree-coh-sis
Sentence: ''I couldn't bear to throw away that sweater Grandma sewn for me. I think i might have contracted psyfabricosis. ''
Etymology: psy-cosis - as because condition is psycological. fabri(c)- to clothing
Solemate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sole mayt
Sentence: Miriam's lime green pumps had become her most loved possessions. She wore them with everything, even after the straps gave out, the heels needed reheeled and the gewgaws fell off, she kept them as they were the solemate she had always sought.
Etymology: Sole (as in the underside of footwear or the underside of the foot) & Mate (a person's partner or love interest) & WordPlay on Soul Mate (someone for whom you have a deep affinity)
Objecated
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: /objec/ like english objec and /ated/ like the suffix in the same language
Sentence: I'm absolutely objecated with my new wardrobe, can't stop touching it... sometimes I even hide inside of it for hours. It feels so good!
Etymology: objecated (adj.) 2006 from /objec/ from English 'object' meaning thing, stuff +/ated/ as in termination for past verbal tense meaning 'already with, already done, already in to'
Socksual
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The lonely bachelor had a socksual relationship with his favorite tube socks.
Etymology:
Dudvotion
Created by: Rocky
Pronunciation: dud|VO|shun
Sentence: Carolyn polished her favorite shoes with loving dudvotion after a squirrel scratched them.
Etymology: duds | devotion
Clothemarriage
Created by: chrisk2k7
Pronunciation: clo- the - marr - idge
Sentence:
Etymology:
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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