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DEFINITION: n. A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say. v. To talk in a painfully slow manner.
Verboticisms
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Molassalogue
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: mull-ass-uh-log
Sentence: I'd rather be eaten alive by a wild hog than listen to another Molassalogue.
Etymology: molasses + monologue
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COMMENTS:
Does a molassalogue have a sweet tooth? And always tell a sugar-coated verson? - petaj, 2007-03-02: 20:02:00
Can my 'treaclespeaker' deliver a molassalogue? Nice word! - Discoveria, 2007-03-02: 21:32:00
would you listen in a fog? would you listen with a hog? - Alchemist, 2007-03-03: 07:46:00
Great one! - BMott, 2007-03-09: 00:11:00
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Dallygabber
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber
Sentence: It took Frank, a classic dallygabber, three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds. It became so frustrating that everyone was finishing his sentences for him.
Etymology: dally + gab + gabber
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COMMENTS:
Is the Dalai Lama a dallygabber? - porsche, 2007-03-02: 10:30:00
I suspect the Dalai Lama is a dilly dallying dallgabber. - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:33:00
oops I meant a dilly dallying dallygabber - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:34:00
A dillying dallygabber? I guess he would go on, and on, and on... Which might be good, unless it was all talk and no action. - wordmeister, 2007-03-02: 10:50:00
I think this has become a silly dilly dallying dallygabber discourse. - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:54:00
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Blungle
Created by: JoePeacock
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The lazy oaf blungled on about how it had become increasingly difficult to catch sheep for his supper.
Etymology:
Nadayadayada
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: nah-da-yah-da-yah-da
Sentence: we all wanted him to summarise the story but he was a well known nadayadadyada so we had to hear the whole damn thing
Etymology: nada [none], yada yada [used to summarise stories]
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COMMENTS:
a bit long - but he idea is brilliant and the sound of the word is nice. here's my vote. - w5lf9s, 2007-03-02: 11:43:00
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Likeahdrone
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lyk/ah/droe/n
Sentence: A likeahdrone is an individual who intersperses like ah between every word
Etymology: like ah + drone (to go on and on and on)
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COMMENTS:
I've like ah come like ah across some of like those - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:35:00
You must be Canadian like ah, EH? - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:57:00
Although we are aussies are guilty of putting ays on the end of sentences, the kiwis do this something chronic. Would that be the antipodean version of ah? - petaj, 2007-03-02: 19:59:00
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Boreatone
Created by: eddie
Pronunciation: bor/a/toan
Sentence: Steve "The Slug" Jones speaks in such a boreatone manner that he has been known to talk people to sleep.
Etymology: boredom + monotone
Multisyllabadroner
Created by: crazymuso
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He was a multisyllabadroner - it took him 3 hours to tell me what the time was, whilst I was looking at his watch.
Etymology: Multi + syllable + drone
Putterpatterer
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: puuuuuuuh-tur-paaaaaaaaa-tur
Sentence: The patient had the misfortune to get an EMT who was a putterpatterer; by the time his rescuer could utter the phrase "Are you choking?", he had already passed out.
Etymology: putter, patter
Monotorator
Created by: swallowedbyafish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Unbeknownst to Billy-Bob, he was a notorious monotorator, which explained why everybody always seemed to space out when he spoke.
Etymology: monotonous/monotone + orator
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James
BMott - 2007-03-09: 00:10:00
Loved this one!
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James
Hey Verbotomists, Jasper Fforde is sending us signed copy of The Eyre Affair for the top writer this week. I guess Fforde did not want to see his heroine, Thursday Next, trapped in verbalaze of boratoric snailocution. ~ James