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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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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).
Apparelationship
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: Uh-par-eh-LAT-shun-ship
Sentence: Diane was deep into a perverted apparelationship with a naughty pair of sequinned Jimmy Choos, and had to miss church that day.
Etymology: Apparel - Clothing Relationship - thing women have with clothing.
Clothishism
Created by: lynx13
Pronunciation: claw-thee-shism
Sentence: "I'm a clothishist and proud of it!"
Etymology: choth +fetishism
Objecated
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: /objec/ like english objec and /ated/ like the suffix in the same language
Sentence: I'm absolutely objecated with my new wardrobe, can't stop touching it... sometimes I even hide inside of it for hours. It feels so good!
Etymology: objecated (adj.) 2006 from /objec/ from English 'object' meaning thing, stuff +/ated/ as in termination for past verbal tense meaning 'already with, already done, already in to'
Clothoniphilate
Created by: krinthox
Pronunciation: kloh-THON-ih-fil-ayt
Sentence: Although my parents tell me that my shirt is too small, and that I must get rid of it, I can not help but keep it as I clothoniphilated with it long ago.
Etymology: cloth [as in clothes, tablecloth, etc...] -phil [loving of something] -ate [forms a verb]
Kleiteliebe
Created by: Jewlicious
Pronunciation: KLEET leeb
Sentence: I'm so kleiteliebe for this dress.
Etymology: From the Middle High German kleit for cloth, and liebe for love.
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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