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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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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
Aspersavox
Created by: apathy42
Pronunciation: ass-PER-sah-vocks
Sentence: It was strange; although in every other way Paul was manic, when talking he definitely had the tendency to be an aspersavox.
Etymology: aspersa - the species name for garden snail, vox - latin for voice
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)
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.
Slothor
Created by: noztril
Pronunciation: slaw ther
Sentence: the slothor continued even as his audience snored
Etymology: sloth author
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
Spalker
Created by: skepsis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jimmy, a major spalker, seems to have trouble stringing sentences together.
Etymology: space and talker
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:
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COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
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Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
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