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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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Clothophilia
Created by: Upaut
Pronunciation: Cloth-o-feel-ee-a
Sentence: Psychologists have recently dicovered a trend of clothophilia, found mostly in department stores.
Etymology: Clothing + "-philia"
Wearendency
Created by: eledh
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: wear+dependendency (or tendency)
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)
Gardent
Created by: Tesla
Pronunciation: gar - dent
Sentence: Jim had always had a special gardent for his spiderman boxers.
Etymology: Garment + ardent
Clotheswhorse
Created by: cannibalgymnastics
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Whats she doing in the back seat of the car with her handbag?" "She's a clotheswhorse." "Ulp!"
Etymology:
Clothmance
Created by: hamburgerman
Pronunciation: cloh - manse
Sentence: Laura developed such clothmance with the fancy dress she borrowed from her friend that she could not return it.
Etymology: clothes + romance = clothmance
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COMMENTS:
no comment - hamburgerman, 2009-08-20: 21:31:00
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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
Pumphumping
Created by: proArchy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I don't want to take off these heels, i just can't stop pumphumping them!!
Etymology:
Sandalovesick
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: san dal luv sik
Sentence: Sandra was dreading it. The annual foreboding of the Labor Day Weekend. She would be sandalovesick, because her beloved lime sandals would once more leave her like a summer romance and go off to her closet. Mother Nature and Dame Fashion both insisted that the darling shoes be sent away until next spring, when climate and season would be more accepting of them. It broke Sandra's heart and when she became despadrille to see them in the cold days of winter, she would secretly break them out of their California Closet prison and dance a salsa around the house in them...she just could not help herself to save her sole!
Etymology: Sandal (a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot) & Lovesick (languishing because of love;obsessed about someone or something).
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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