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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.
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Slowlanespeaker
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: slow-lane-speak-er
Sentence: John is a slowlanespeaker who just putters along talking at his own pace no matter how fast the world around him is zipping by.
Etymology: slowlane (i.e. traffic lane) + speaker
Lowgear
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: lowgear
Sentence: Just let him talk, he is talking in lowgear
Etymology: low and gear as in gearbox
Syllabroadening
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sill a brawd enn ing
Sentence: his syllabroadining was so pronounced, it took him two minutes to say"two minutes"
Etymology: syllable, broaden
Boratory
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bôrətôrē
Sentence: Whenever Jim has insomnia he knows just what to do. He goes into the guest room and turns on the TV to C-Span. The boratory is sure to put him right to sleep. He has to be careful to be lying down when he clicks to the channel so that he doesn*t fall and hit his head as it comes on.
Etymology: bore (make [someone] feel weary and uninterested by tedious talk or dullness) + oratory (the art or practice of formal speaking in public)
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COMMENTS:
heh! - galwaywegian, 2009-09-22: 10:21:00
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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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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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Aspergadrone
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: Ass-per-ga-droan
Sentence: That aspergadrone over there just took 45 minutes to tell me he was going to be late tomorrow. How many ways can you say "My alarm clock broke"?
Etymology: Asperger's syndrome=an autism spectrum disorder in which the sufferer does not register social queues + drone=someone who goes on and on endlessly
Dronestoppable
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: drone + stop + uh + bull
Sentence: Oh man, don't get Al Gore going on global warming - he's dronestoppable.
Etymology: Drone + unstoppable. (This isn't really one of my best.)
Procrastanarrator
Created by: sunny
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The procrastanarrator sucked all the oxygen from the room.
Etymology:
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