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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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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
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
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
Apparaphilia
Created by: MrOliver
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Due to Tracy's chronic case of apparaphilia, she couldn't help but wear her chinchilla pumps.
Etymology:
Attiraction
Created by: david101
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jane's attiraction to her blouse is leaving a detrimental effect on her relationship with her husband.
Etymology: 'Attire'; 'Attraction'
Fashionphillic
Created by: NIDWU
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Oh my god that girl adores her shoes so much, she is so fashionphillic
Etymology: Fashionphillic comes from the words Fashion, and Phillic Fashion - an illustration of a clothing style; a person who dresses in the latest fashions Phillic:: having an affinity for : loving.
Conjugarb
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: con-juh-gahrb
Sentence: She found a new denim jacket with which to conjugarb.
Etymology: Conjugate meaning to marry or join. Garb meaning clothing.
Donapal
Created by: swaizel
Pronunciation:
Sentence: His old jacket was his best donapal.
Etymology: don as is wear a pal good friend
Camisamor
Created by: TerikaBrown
Pronunciation: Ka-MI-sa-mor
Sentence: Joe casmisamors his green jacket for the history he has of wimming arguments against his girlfriend while wearing it.
Etymology: From the Spanish words for blouse "Camisa" and love "amor."
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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