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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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Accessamour
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: ass-ess-a-mor
Sentence: As she saw the purse in the window, she ignored the price. It was accessamour at first sight!
Etymology: accessory + amour
Garbophile
Created by: Hilary
Pronunciation: garb/o/phy/le
Sentence: Alice is quite the garbophile, she has been known to cuddle up on the couch with those slippers.
Etymology: garb (clothing), phile (love)
Fetisha
Created by: LenhardtLac
Pronunciation: f'-tishö
Sentence: I won't give these shirts to you, It grew to be a fetisha to me throughout these years... oh God...
Etymology:
Fastenation
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: fas-en-ay-shun
Sentence: Jill had a fastenation with her favorite black dress.
Etymology: fasten + facination
Anthroclothmorphicism
Created by: dcorry
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: A clash of anthropomorphic and cloth.
Clothicism
Created by: Frogglerok
Pronunciation: clow-the-sizzem
Sentence: My mom says my want and need to wear the same red shirt everyday is a clear sign of clothisism.
Etymology: Cloth from the word clothes. -Cism from words like Massocism and Narcisism.
Pashionate
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: pa-shun-et
Sentence: She loved her husband and adored her kids, but only about her shoes was she truly pashionate
Etymology: fashion, passionate
Autotogeroticism
Created by: DIKIDI
Pronunciation: AW-TO-TOG-E-ROT-I-SI-ZIM
Sentence: AUTOTOGEROTICISM IS RAMPANT AMONG TEENAGERS AND METROSEXUALS.
Etymology: AUTO (SELF), TOGS (CLOTHES), EROTICISM (AROUSAL)
Happarel
Created by: knickers
Pronunciation: Hap-a-rel
Sentence: This clothing store doesn't sell ordinary apparel - it sells happarel.
Etymology: From happy, apparel
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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