Vote for the best verboticism.
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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Sextillism
Created by: isopraxis
Pronunciation: like it reads
Sentence: I can't wear these calvins without having a bout of the old sextillisms.
Etymology: Sex textiles
Coturamour
Created by: Wriiight
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: coture (high fashion) and amour (love) like in the word paramour
Satisfashionary
Created by: squashy
Pronunciation: satis-fashon-ary
Sentence: she had a satisfashionary relationship with her scarf.
Etymology: satisfying fashion
Infabrication
Created by: jania773
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Admit it, you have an infabrication, always wearing that shirt.
Etymology:
Favomaside
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Fav-vom-aside
Sentence: I have got quite the favomaside with these neon yellow socks with bells attached to the heel. They're like my babies!
Etymology: Favoritism + something with aside in it somewhere...
Identaduds
Created by: logan260
Pronunciation: i-dent-a-duds
Sentence: Mary is sporting her identaduds again for the Christmas Party.
Etymology: Identity: who you are. in this case the clothes due to the relationship become part of who the wearer imagines herself to be. Duds: slang for clothes.
Garmate
Created by: meiyas
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After that tie help me get that girl, it became my best garmate.
Etymology: garm from garment, article of clothing mate form mate, friend
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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