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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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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

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Jabberfuddle

Created by: BuenoCabra

Pronunciation: (JA-bur-fuh'-dul)

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Forrestgumpism

Created by: euclid

Pronunciation: forest+gump+ism

Sentence: come on with your bullshit.

Etymology: forrest gump=a long ass explination of a number of years that could have been described in a sentence like:"a mentally challenged man grew up in a society whose government chose to go to war."

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Talkumentary

Created by: aj3131

Pronunciation: Talk-u-mentary

Sentence: Everybody want the dude to stop giving us a talkumentary about how he scraped the pimples off his back.

Etymology: talk + (doc)umentary

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COMMENTS:

i really like it but it seems to be more the things the person is saying instead of the actual person...? its good otherwise - ekath, 2007-03-06: 22:16:00

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Dialaudler

Created by: sonic101

Pronunciation: di-a-laud-ler

Sentence: Rebecca just goes on and on, always being a dialaudler

Etymology: dialog+daudle=dialaudler

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Droneprone

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: drone/prone

Sentence: Pierre Pantperhog was known among family, friends, and foes alike as a dithering "droneprone" dude.

Etymology: drone + prone

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Monotorator

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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

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Splodder

Created by: EonaFrae

Pronunciation: Sp-laud-er

Sentence: If Tom kept splodding along, I would never make the 6:30 reservation.

Etymology: Speak [to utter words] + Plod [the act of moving or walking heavily and slowly]

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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

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Slothmouth

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: slôθmouθ

Sentence: Whenever Tim has trouble sleeping, he goes to his TV and turns on the local government access channel. He has his own name for the reporter who covers the city council. He calls him Yawn Sleeperson. Five minutes with this slothmouth is sure to bring on slumber. If he is lucky he can stumble to bed just before he nods off, otherwise it’s another morning waking up in rumpled clothing with a kink in his neck.

Etymology: sloth (a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws) + mouth (the opening in the lower part of the human face, surrounded by the lips, through which food is taken in and from which speech and other sounds are emitted)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-03-02: 00:00:01
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James

BMott - 2007-03-09: 00:10:00
Loved this one!

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-22: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-09-22: 07:12:00
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