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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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Garbardor
Created by: ratibala
Pronunciation: gahrb-ahr-der
Sentence: Having stood the test of time more than any man in her life, she spoke of her favorite sweater with great garbardor.
Etymology: Garb, meaning a fashion Ardor, meaning warmth of feeling
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.
Textilephile
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: tex-tile-file
Sentence: Brigid was such a textilephile that I often found her favorite nightie handcuffed to the bed and snudged with whipped cream and bacon bits.
Etymology: textile + phile (lover)
Frockify
Created by: janedoe
Pronunciation: frock-ify
Sentence:
Etymology: from "frock" clothing and glorify and deify.
Garbophile
Created by: Hilary
Pronunciation: garb/o/phy/le
Sentence: Alice is quite the garbophile, she has been known to cuddle up on the couch with those slippers.
Etymology: garb (clothing), phile (love)
Pantasize
Created by: Hobart
Pronunciation:
Sentence: In high schools across the rural midwest, high school "metal-heads" have been know to pantasize about jean vests, often accompanied with Motorhead patches.
Etymology:
Apparalism
Created by: nspearso
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Maria has a deep apparalism for her pinstripe slacks.
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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