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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.
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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)
Stuporator
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: stew pour 8 or
Sentence: He was a consumate stuporator, having killed three innocent tourists while giving them directions to the bus depot. in the case of two of them, their heartbeats got slower and slower over the course of two hours until they eventually arrested. Being Japanese, they were too polite to walk away. The third one just lost the will to live, and impaled himself on his umbrella.
Etymology: stupor, orator
Talkoner
Created by: leogd
Pronunciation: tawk on er
Sentence: he's a real talkoner
Etymology:
Orabore
Created by: jpmikkers
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
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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
Tonguesloth
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: tung-sloth
Sentence: Bore was too mild a word for Bob, a drawlsmith, whose glacilalian explications sounded like a dentist's drill - slow and painful. This snailjaw and tonguesloth never put off until tomorrow the tedium he could slackadaisically spread today.
Etymology: Sloth (physically and mentally inactive)& tongue (a speech organ, speech)
Loquaster
Created by: plan9
Pronunciation: low+qway+ster
Sentence: A true loquaster, Bob never failed to use 1,000 words spoken slowly when 100 uttered quickly would do.
Etymology: loquacious + waster
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
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.
Turtell
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: tur-tell
Sentence: Bob was a true turtell. He was so slowquacious that by the time he yelled "Fire!", the garage was nothing but a pile of smoldering embers.
Etymology: turtle, tell
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
Vertardious