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DEFINITION: To imagine that you are peace dove, or maybe a pigeon, flying high above the crowd and dropping your best wishes on everyone.
Verboticisms
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Cognocolomboamopaxscatus
Created by: neilly
Pronunciation: cogno-col-om-bo-amo-pax-scatus
Sentence: Roger was sick to death of rude shoppers who had forgot the meaning of Christmas, so he went for a coffee and day-dreamed about a wilful act of cognocolomboamopaxscatus.
Etymology: cogitare (latin, to think or imagine); columba (latin, dove); amo (latin, love); pax (latin, peace); scatus, sounds a bit like scat.
Whitebless
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Amid the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, one makes time to whitebless.
Etymology: White for the colour of a dove, and its droppings. Bless is self-explanitory.
Guanogreetings
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: gwono/greet/ings
Sentence: As the bird of paradise swooped to catch a colorful chord of deep and heart-rending sentiment from the holiday singers below, he couldn't help but let loose a load of garish guanogreetings.
Etymology: guano: ornithological ordure + greetings: sentimental salutations
Crapsody
Created by: torgone
Pronunciation: krap-so-dee
Sentence: I was awakened from my crapsody by a loud noise.
Etymology: crap + rhapsody
Peacedropping
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: pea-se-drop-ing
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
- GreatRandew, 2006-12-18: 07:53:00
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Benefecation
Created by: Pipeski
Pronunciation: Ben-eff-i-kay-shum
Sentence: Thanks to the donations of many generous benefecators the gentlemen's conveniences were somewhat malodorous.
Etymology: benediction+defecation
Wishit
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: wi-sht
Sentence: While I was doing my speech I was wishting the crowd.
Etymology: wish + sit
Peacecrementalize
Created by: msnyder
Pronunciation: peace - crement - a - lyze
Sentence: Santa said, come on up on my sled and peacecrementalize with me as we fly over New York.
Etymology: central appalachain
Comments:
Crapatulation
camel - 2006-12-18: 13:38:00
All these nouns & adjectives really irk me; in fact, I'm escafating at the thought of you nounoticists & adjectivists.
ErWenn - 2006-12-18: 13:45:00
This may be a case of a definition carrying too much content. Why the imagining? Why not "To drop your best wishes on everyone, as a peace dove or pigeon"? Or maybe just "To poop on someone, as a dove or pigeon"? You can always elaborate the circumstances in the little comic (which always amuses me, by the way).
ErWenn - 2006-12-18: 13:46:00
I like the new set-up as far as it hides voting results and rankings and how it randomizes the words, but it'd be nice if I could get a list of all the words submitted. Otherwise, I keep hitting "More..." over and over again, just in case I missed one randomly.
gwenaverill - 2006-12-18: 14:51:00
Definitely. Also, I'm having a hard time finding the results now, even for words I've already voted on.
gwenaverill - 2006-12-18: 14:53:00
You know something else that might work well? Have a time window for submitting verboticisms and a different time window for voting on them. For example, we submit the definitions of this word all day today, and then new words cannot be created, and tomorrow we vote on all the entries at the same time as we create the next verboticism. It would cut down on the "early bird" syndrome in voting.
Hey ErWenn and Gwenaverill, Thanks for your comments! We are in the early days of the game so we appreciate your suggestions. We will make a complete list verboticisims available, and we are workinfg on the timing. Thanks ~ James