Vote for the best verboticism.
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
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
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
Apparamour
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: App-arr-ah-more
Sentence: Suzie's leather coat was her new secret apparamour.
Etymology: Apparel + Paramour
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COMMENTS:
Two people create this word. Interesting... Do you know each other? Or was it accidental? - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 11:13:00
Doesn't the definition imply that the word should be a verb, not a noun? - golux13, 2006-12-14: 11:30:00
No, we don't know one another. I am not sure how that happened. I am new to the game. - attis, 2006-12-14: 23:53:00
I don't know Attis, and I think there may be some sort of group thing with more points happen when repeating a word. Sorry I did not mean to copy but I did think of the same word. - erasmus, 2006-12-18: 07:04:00
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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
Happarel
Created by: knickers
Pronunciation: Hap-a-rel
Sentence: This clothing store doesn't sell ordinary apparel - it sells happarel.
Etymology: From happy, apparel
Adoredrobe
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: ah-dor-drohb
Sentence: Stacey was a passionate adoredrobe. She loved her new top. She was completely wowed by her new skirt. She ecstatic about her new shoes. And with her new bag... it all came together so perfectly that she was panting with joy. Which made it a bit awkward for the other people on the bus.
Etymology: adore + wardrobe
Appenamored
Created by: Drock
Pronunciation: APP-un-am-urd
Sentence: Greg alway thought it a bit strange that his mother was so appenamored with that cashmere sweater.
Etymology: Apparel - clothes. Enamored - in love with.
Affheeliation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: af feel ee ay shun
Sentence: Her lime green Manolo Blahniks had become her first love. She had a deep and loving affheeliation with those platforms. You could say they had become sole-mates, they were her Achilles' Heel, the one thing that could pump up her mood. They had become the arch enemy of her depression. When she slipped into them, she was neither a loafer nor a clod, but a sexy vamp. She walked taller and spoke with tongue in cheek. Besides, at $900 a pair, she had to get her money's worth out of them by wearing them everyday!
Etymology: Affilation (keep company with; hang out with;a social or business relationship) & Heel (the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground;high heeled shoe)
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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