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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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Garbond

Created by: danboaz

Pronunciation: gar-bond

Sentence: Her garbond was getting in the way of our relationship

Etymology: garb + bond

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Clotheioholic

Created by: aloloo

Pronunciation: clothe-io-holic

Sentence: I don't know why, but people always call me a clotheioholic-ooh new shoes!

Etymology: cloth+holic=clotheioholic

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Habilophilly

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation:

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Etymology:

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Vestonan

Created by: iplaytool

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I've got a real vestonan for this silk shirt; it feels so nice and gives me good luck.

Etymology: vesti - clothing onanism - masturbation

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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'

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Apparalust

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Created by: Chunk01

Pronunciation: Appara-lust

Sentence: I could see from the Shopping bags that she was suffering from a case of apparalust

Etymology: Apparal and Lust

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Feshion

Created by: pdxpogo

Pronunciation: feh-shun

Sentence: Underware with holes in them have become the latest feshion.

Etymology: fetish fashion

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Prejududs

Created by: wordbird

Pronunciation: prej-u-duds

Sentence: He knew that he would have a better chance of winning the karaoke contest if he was wearing his prejududs.

Etymology: prejudice; duds

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Clovething

Created by: maker

Pronunciation: C-love-thing

Sentence: My 20 year old jeans are my favourite piece of clovething.

Etymology: Clothing + Love = Clovething

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Adoreadornmentize

Created by: walkingdistraction

Pronunciation: uh-door-uh-dorn-ment-ize

Sentence: Jesus, I adoreadornmentized that sweater.

Etymology: adore+adornment

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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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