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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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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

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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