Vote for the best verboticism.
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
Click on each verboticism to read the sentences created by the Verbotomy writers, and to see your voting options...
You have two votes. Click on the words to read the details, then vote your favorite.
Yawnyacker
Created by: logorrhoea
Pronunciation: yawn-yak-er
Sentence: Bill is such a yawnyacker - people have been known to commit suicide rather than wait for him to stop talking.
Etymology: yawn + yack (persistent annoying chatter)
Orabore
Created by: jpmikkers
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
----------------------------
COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
----------------------------
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)
Slowworder
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I have no time to discuss with such a slowworder
Etymology:
Dulsertation
Created by: jesster
Pronunciation: DUL - ser - tation
Sentence: Arnie's dullsertation on the chemical compounds used to make modern deodorant was more lethal than his body odor.
Etymology: dull + dissertation
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.
Epiplod
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: ep-uh-plod
Sentence: Ken was a bigger epiplod than most politicians.
Etymology: epilogue - (a concluding speech) and plod - (trudge, slow)
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
Loqwaitcious
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: loh-KWAYT-shuhs
Sentence: Alex fell asleep during the loqwaitcious ramblings of his date's explaining how she had finally come to the decision to go out with him.
Etymology: loquacious (talkative) + wait
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
Vertardious