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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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Orabore
Created by: jpmikkers
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COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
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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
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
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)
Spalker
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jimmy, a major spalker, seems to have trouble stringing sentences together.
Etymology: space and talker
Talkoner
Created by: leogd
Pronunciation: tawk on er
Sentence: he's a real talkoner
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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
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)
Conversuctionalist
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: con-ver-SUCK-shun-al-ist
Sentence: Tom's conversuctional skills were wasted on Mary who would have preverred he used them on her insomniac boyfriend Fred.
Etymology: conversation and suck - a conversuction is a time-wasting endeavor. Those who excel in wasting the time are conversuctionalists.
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
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