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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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Undeclothable
Created by: exmugger
Pronunciation: un-de-claw-ther-ble
Sentence: This baby napkin is undeclothable to me. I still bring it with me wherever i go.
Etymology: unable to de-cloth
Fashionation
Created by: reznite
Pronunciation: fash-un-aysh-un
Sentence: Jenny had an uncontrollable and unfortunate fashionation with a glove that had once been discarded by Michael Jackson.
Etymology: fashion + fascination
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COMMENTS:
hey babel, that's a fashionating word! - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 11:07:00
poor michael jackson... - wordmeister, 2006-12-14: 11:07:00
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Psyfabricosis
Created by: elenas
Pronunciation: sigh-fabree-coh-sis
Sentence: ''I couldn't bear to throw away that sweater Grandma sewn for me. I think i might have contracted psyfabricosis. ''
Etymology: psy-cosis - as because condition is psycological. fabri(c)- to clothing
Vestamorous
Created by: knave
Pronunciation:
Sentence: She's a little too vestamorous for me -- I just wear my clothes.
Etymology: vest - from Latin vestire to clothe amorous - from Latin amor love
Regaliaphelia
Created by: kmccardle
Pronunciation:
Sentence: John's regaliaphelia with his worried his wife. She never knew when the two might run away to the Bahamas together.
Etymology: regalia(fancy or dressy clothing) - phelia(attraction or affinity to something)
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COMMENTS:
So I just realized it should be -philia not -phelia, my bad! - kmccardle, 2006-12-14: 20:12:00
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Pantophelia
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Pant-o-feel-ia
Sentence: He loved those courduroys, to the point of pantophelia.
Etymology: Combination of pant (as is pants.) and ophelia (tendancy toward or abnormal attraction to.)
Accoutermate
Created by: katiedevine
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I have accourtermated with this fabulous jacket.
Etymology:
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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