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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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Gardent
Created by: Tesla
Pronunciation: gar - dent
Sentence: Jim had always had a special gardent for his spiderman boxers.
Etymology: Garment + ardent
Wrapture
Created by: fmgene
Pronunciation: rap - ture
Sentence: that diane von fustenburg dress sent the assembled audience into wraptures
Etymology: wrap + rapture
Securtacle
Created by: Coolfool
Pronunciation: Secur as in Secure, and tacle as in article. I used the acle spelling because I think it makes the pronunciation relly accessable at a glance & I just like the look, and "feel" of the word.
Sentence: I can't believe we left home without that brat's securtacles.
Etymology: An "article" that makes one feel "secure". Your warm & fuzzy securtacle.
Togettish
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: to-get-ish
Sentence: When it came to shoes, he was very togettish
Etymology: toe toga get gettish fetsih
Attireophile
Created by: Deadpanlives
Pronunciation: A-tar-o-file
Sentence: James is an attireophile, no doubt about it, i've never seen him without that jacket.
Etymology: Attire The suffix ophile
Threadfriend
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: THRED-frend
Sentence: Jim hugged his threadfriend tightly, inhaling the scents that spoke of the 40 years he'd kept the old sock by his side.
Etymology: thread (fiber) + friend
Vesturomance
Created by: elstiko
Pronunciation: Vest-yoo-ro-mans
Sentence: In the height of my lova affair, dare I say, my vesturomance with my new waistcoat, I began wearing it to bed, and insisted it be dry-cleaned while it was being worn.
Etymology: From Vesture and Romance.
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COMMENTS:
Derivative! - elstiko, 2006-12-14: 22:53:00
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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.
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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