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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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Sprechenlager
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: shprek-en-lah-ger
Sentence: I'm sorry I'm late! Some sprechenlager at the DMV kept me there for two hours while he explained why it's bad to run a red light!
Etymology: Take off on the German for "speak"="sprechen" + "lag" meaning "to delay" + "er" which is the ending for changing a verb into a personal noun in German
Laguage
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: layg - wij
Sentence: Tessa spoke her own laguage. By the time she finished a sentence, everyone knew what she was trying to say and had long since ceased to listen.
Etymology: lag, language
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Nosila, 2009-09-22: 10:57:00
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Ploughmouth
Created by: deanmoses
Pronunciation: plow-mouth
Sentence: I kept trying to say "I got it" but that ploughmouth ploughed right over me.
Etymology:
Snainic
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: sne nik
Sentence: He takes too much time in conveying a single idea , he is a real snainic.
Etymology: snail: an animal which moves very slowly. sonic: sound waves , relating to sound
Enuncilater
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/nun/see/lay/tur
Sentence: Dave spent so much time worrying about pronunciation while conversing that he became know as an enuncilater.
Etymology: enunciator + later
Borator
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: bow ray tur
Sentence: She couldn't understand how such a borator had such a hot partner. Then she thought about it for a looooong time.
Etymology: bore orator
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
Comunicomma
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: com uni co maa
Sentence: Steve had chronic comunicomma, he could'nt finish even a two word sentence within a minute.
Etymology: from communicate and comma and coma. Always putting commas where they are not needed and so slow that he can put you in a coma.
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COMMENTS:
that,is, I, think, a, very, good, way...(ran out of commas) :) - Alchemist, 2007-03-02: 06:39:00
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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