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'I'm in love with these shoes.'

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.

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Secondskin

Created by: sliceof

Pronunciation:

Sentence: My grunge era knee-holed jeans are secondskin.

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Vestmental

Created by: Fleury

Pronunciation: vest-MEN-tull

Sentence: I was absolutely vestmental about those pants. If I had to choose between my girlfriend and my pants ... well ...

Etymology: Vestment + mental

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Chapparel

Created by: igho1207

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

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Garmentraction

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: gar-ment-TRAK-shun

Sentence: I'm so garmentracted to this shirt, I can't get rid of it even though it's super old and full of holes!

Etymology: garment + attraction

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Wearlove

Created by: sourenvk

Pronunciation:

Sentence: wearloving my coat hugged me through life

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Adoredrobe

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: ah-dor-drohb

Sentence: Stacey was a passionate adoredrobe. She loved her new top. She was completely wowed by her new skirt. She ecstatic about her new shoes. And with her new bag... it all came together so perfectly that she was panting with joy. Which made it a bit awkward for the other people on the bus.

Etymology: adore + wardrobe

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Adorapparelism

Created by: bigfish

Pronunciation: ad-or-ap-air-all-ism

Sentence: The girl looks like she's got serious adorapparelism wearing that same dress every day!

Etymology: Adore + Apparel

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Shozophrenic

Created by: Logiedan

Pronunciation: shoe-zoe-fren-ick

Sentence: Jessica had to hire a psychologist because of the shozophrenic personality she had developed with her new dress.

Etymology: Shoe, schizophrenic.

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Inanimorata

Created by: DarthWader

Pronunciation: in an ih more otta

Sentence: She clawed through her closet for the her precious inanimorata, which sat protected in a special box toward the back.

Etymology: inanimate (not alive) + inamorata (female lover)

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Clothesession

Created by: lala54

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I am wearing out my favortive jeans, I have to get over my clothesession of them and start wearing another pair

Etymology: clothing + obsession

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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.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-14: 09:25:00
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!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2006-12-14: 12:58:00
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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