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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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Garmentamorize
Created by: cataath
Pronunciation: garm-men-TAM-or-ise
Sentence: Hank always liked that leather jacket, but after the accident he began to garmentamorize it.
Etymology: garment + amor (love) + ize
Clothophilia
Created by: Upaut
Pronunciation: Cloth-o-feel-ee-a
Sentence: Psychologists have recently dicovered a trend of clothophilia, found mostly in department stores.
Etymology: Clothing + "-philia"
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]
Muffania
Created by: widget
Pronunciation: Mafania
Sentence: She was extremely attached to her muff!
Etymology: Muff/Mania
Apparaphilia
Created by: MrOliver
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Due to Tracy's chronic case of apparaphilia, she couldn't help but wear her chinchilla pumps.
Etymology:
Matrosexuality
Created by: pjlilley
Pronunciation: ma-tro-SEX-u-al-i-ti
Sentence: Her matrosexuality has gotten out of hand. We need to have an intervention between her and those socks!
Etymology: play on metrosexual
Comfkshy
Created by: k2nsf
Pronunciation: Cumf-shkee
Sentence: I can't go to sleep unless I'm wearing my comfkshy socks.
Etymology: Comfort plus blankie
Clothveting
Created by: bluefunky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I clothvet my new shoes.
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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