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DEFINITION: v. To have a favorite article of clothing with which you develop a personal, and even a deeply fulfilling, relationship. n. A much loved article of clothing.
Verboticisms
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Textilove
Created by: seifip
Pronunciation: text e love
Sentence: I'm in love with these shoes. I'm in textilove.
Etymology: textile + love
Textilephile
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: tex-tile-file
Sentence: Brigid was such a textilephile that I often found her favorite nightie handcuffed to the bed and snudged with whipped cream and bacon bits.
Etymology: textile + phile (lover)
Clothophilia
Created by: Upaut
Pronunciation: Cloth-o-feel-ee-a
Sentence: Psychologists have recently dicovered a trend of clothophilia, found mostly in department stores.
Etymology: Clothing + "-philia"
Monogarobed
Created by: oohisay
Pronunciation: mon-og-a-robed
Sentence: Rachel is just monogarobed with that velour vest.
Etymology:
Attireophile
Created by: Deadpanlives
Pronunciation: A-tar-o-file
Sentence: James is an attireophile, no doubt about it, i've never seen him without that jacket.
Etymology: Attire The suffix ophile
Autotogeroticism
Created by: DIKIDI
Pronunciation: AW-TO-TOG-E-ROT-I-SI-ZIM
Sentence: AUTOTOGEROTICISM IS RAMPANT AMONG TEENAGERS AND METROSEXUALS.
Etymology: AUTO (SELF), TOGS (CLOTHES), EROTICISM (AROUSAL)
Habermaina
Created by: Nezuji
Pronunciation: ha/burr/main/ee/ah
Sentence: Janice's habermania for her filthy, old, pink running shoes was beginning to grate on her father's nerves.
Etymology: haberdashery + mania
Attirefication
Created by: Jhurk
Pronunciation:
Sentence: John's lavish attirefication of his Jets jersey was cause for concern.
Etymology:
Memorashoe
Created by: meredithzielke
Pronunciation: MEM-OR-AH-SH-OO
Sentence: Man, your shoes look like they've got some gruff to them. Did you stomp all over Europe with those thangs? I wish I had me a pair of memorashoes.
Etymology: Memory + Shoes (think a bit... oh! you got it)
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COMMENTS:
good job, Meredith. i like that term. 10 points! - meredithzielke, 2006-12-14: 13:59:00
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Wearendency
Created by: eledh
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: wear+dependendency (or tendency)
Comments:
Jonno - 2006-12-14: 04:40:00
Hi all! New to this and it's fun, but here's my 3 cents worth... 1. Placing the most voted-for words at the top of the list biases the voting. 2. Words entered earlier are subject to more votes. Could you not take all the entries before voting begins? Or have voting for yesterday's word while today's definitions are open? 3. You should add the part of speech to the definition (verb, noun, etc). I think the celeverer words are the ones which match the definition. 4. Please make these comment boxes a bit bigger! Thanks, Jon.
Hey Jonno, Thanks for your suggestions. They are all good! We are working on way to divide players/words into smaller groups, which will change the way verboticisms are listed, and the way voting happens. Stay tuned... In terms of the "part of speech", we actually had that in earlier, but took it out because people didn't like it. We could add it back... What do you guys think? Thanks for playing! ~ James
ErWenn - 2006-12-14: 12:14:00
I've just joined, and so far, every definition has been for a verb, but most of them lend themselves better to nouns. For example, it's easier to name a disease or condition than it is to give a word that describes succumbing to such a condition. Most of the winning words are nouns, as you can see. I think you should either formally open it up for any part of speech communicating the idea, choose the part of speech for each definition more carefully, or strictly enforce matching the part of speech of the definition.
philip - 2006-12-14: 12:31:00
Nice idea, look forward to playing :) Agree with Jonno on all points, especially the problem that entries made earlier will automatically get more votes...
verbatul - 2006-12-14: 12:35:00
James, the parts of speech is a great idea! It seems that we have a lot of clever people suggesting words so I don't think any creativity will be suffer. In fact, it may inspire more ingenuity. Great game!
I think that we might take a tip from ErWenn keep it formally open to all parts of speech, but then allow players to create variants for specific part of speech (e.g, a verb, a noun, an adj,) and award bonus points for the extra creativity. ~ James
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