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DEFINITION: A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly through long explications, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say.
Verboticisms
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Monotologue
Created by: Neej13
Pronunciation: Mo-not-a-log
Sentence: The politician was a true monotologue, the perfect one to fillibuster the bill.
Etymology: monotony + monologue
Slowworder
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I have no time to discuss with such a slowworder
Etymology:
Dawdleblather
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: dawd-l-blath-er
Sentence: Sid's dawdleblathering crowned him "most likely to cure your insomnia" at the team building convention.
Etymology: dawdle (slow) + blather (blab)
Sloliloquist
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: slow-lill-a-kwist
Sentence: Alas, poor Rick, was such a slowliloquist that he would never again tread the boards as Hamlet. He was still to-being or not-to-being when the last members of the audience reached home.
Etymology: slow + soliloquist
Orabore
Created by: jpmikkers
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
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Plodindromic
Created by: Xatski
Pronunciation: Plod/en/dro/mic
Sentence: After he failed to pause for breath for the fourteenth time I reliezed his stories were rather plodindromic.
Etymology: Plod + Palindromic (Relapsing, recurring)
Vertardious
Created by: DrHarvey
Pronunciation: Ver-tard-i-us
Sentence: The intern stood there, pencil on paper, waiting for the daily plan from his vertardious consultant who meandered on about the importance of vigilant fluid management.
Etymology: 'Ver' - of the verbal form. 'Tardus' - Slow, latin.
Dallygabber
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber
Sentence: Frank was a classic dallygabber who three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds.
Etymology: dally + gab + gabber
Blahsay
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: blah + say
Sentence: Oh good lord, that guy can blahsay his way through 10 minutes of explaining why X-wing fighters are inferior to Y-wings even though they're both made up things in a movie..
Etymology: It's supposed to be like "blase" only I can't do that little accent thingie over the e. But that's the etymology, anyway.
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COMMENTS:
If you're on a PC, make sure your keypad is set for numerical. Hold down your ALT key, and at the same time, enter 0233 on the keypad. If you're on Mac, I don't know what to tell you. - mplsbohemian, 2007-08-27: 15:15:00
I'm on a laptop with no keypad. :( - Osomatic, 2007-08-27: 17:23:00
Or you could copy and paste from a web page, or from a word processing application (insert symbol) - petaj, 2007-08-27: 23:08:00
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Windlag
Created by: joelb
Pronunciation: WIND-lag
Sentence: By now I knew the directions, but the windlag wouldn't stop telling me where to find the on-ramp.
Etymology: wingbag + lag
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
Vertardious