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'I'm in love with these shoes.'

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.

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Textilephile

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: tex-tile-file

Sentence: Brigid was such a textilephile that I often found her favorite nightie handcuffed to the bed and snudged with whipped cream and bacon bits.

Etymology: textile + phile (lover)

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Fashionation

Created by: babel

Pronunciation: fash-un-aysh-un

Sentence: Jenny had an uncontrollable and unfortunate fashionation with a glove that had once been discarded by Michael Jackson.

Etymology: fashion + fascination

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COMMENTS:

hey babel, that's a fashionating word! - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 11:07:00

poor michael jackson... - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 11:07:00

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Nuratasize

Created by: Lyokia

Pronunciation: nura-ta-size

Sentence: The lady down the street nuratasized the new purse she bought and never leaves the house without it.

Etymology: From nurture

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Fetirobe

Created by: Adamson

Pronunciation: fey-tee-robe

Sentence: I fetirobe this dress, I cannot have sex without it.

Etymology: fetich+robe

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Clothfection

dsingleton

Created by: dsingleton

Pronunciation: cloth - fection

Sentence: I feel an overwhelming clothfection for these new jeans!

Etymology:

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Textitillation

pegritz

Created by: pegritz

Pronunciation: tex-TIT-ill-ation

Sentence: Having been raised by a cult of Prada-worshipping housewives in Upper Manhattan, Richard was all to familiar with the unending temptation of textitillation.

Etymology: Textile + titillation = a good time for all!

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COMMENTS:

Great Sentence! - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 23:42:00

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Petish

Created by: LivyLiu

Pronunciation:

Sentence: She has a strong petish for that leather collar.

Etymology: A combination of "pet" and "fetish".

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Paguridaeate

Created by: jsky20

Pronunciation: pag-y&r-id-I-At

Sentence: Forced to don a suit for his aunt's funeral, Peter quickly cranked the stereo and paguridaeated his Zeppelin t-shirt upon returning home.

Etymology: Paguridae, the hermit crab, will fight vigorously for the right garb and literally live in it, once claimed.

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Obsessaclothia

Created by: MShort

Pronunciation: obsess a clove e a

Sentence: She is suffering from obsessaclothia since she brought her new shoes

Etymology: obsessive + clothing

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Emoment

Created by: Zheyyy

Pronunciation: E-moment

Sentence:

Etymology: Emo = emotional. ment = involvement.

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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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-14: 09:25:00
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!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-14: 12:58:00
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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