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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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Talkoner
Created by: leogd
Pronunciation: tawk on er
Sentence: he's a real talkoner
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)
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)
Orabore
Created by: jpmikkers
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
thanks. - jpmikkers, 2007-08-28: 17:10:00
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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
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
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
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
Comments:
DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
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