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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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Cuckoonacy
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: KOO-KOO-na-SEE
Sentence: "That Santa guy's got a major case of Cuckoonacy."
Etymology: Cuckoo + Lunacy
Peaceon
Created by: bunnyhm
Pronunciation: peece-on ( pronounce like "pigeon" )
Sentence: like "peace" is on you
Etymology:
Psychornithocrapulence
Created by: vainglorious11
Pronunciation: S-eye-k-or-nih-th-oh-k-rap-you-l-en-ss
Sentence: Waiting in the massive line for the boxing day sale, I caught myself in a bout of psychornithocrapulence.
Etymology: Psych- for mental, ornitho- for bird-related, and crapulence for, well, crap.
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COMMENTS:
This particular case might be better termed "caterval (crowd-related) psychornithocrapulence. - vainglorious11, 2006-12-18: 19:31:00
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Tirdbombbird
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: terd-bohm-bird
Sentence: That tirdbombbird sure left a mark in my jacket!
Etymology: tird+bomb+bird
Contemguantribute
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: con-tem-guan-tri-bUt
Sentence: Jane was stuck in line at the airport security, late for her plane with no power to do anything about it, all that was left for her was a special gift for the NSA: contemguantribution. After all it is the thought that counts, right.
Etymology: contem(plate), guan(o), (retri/contri)tribution
Squirtfantaflyze
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: squirt-fanta-flyze
Sentence: Standing in line, I squirtfantaflyzed, concentrating on aiming at the annoying woman in back of me.
Etymology: fantasize + flying + squirting
Gifectate
Created by: bungle
Pronunciation: giff-a-cate
Sentence: And lo, the Christmas Dove did gifecate over the shoppers
Etymology: gift & defecate
Escafate
Created by: camel
Pronunciation: Es-ka-fate
Sentence: Julio would often escafate at the sight of his neighbors' pentagram lawn mowing parties & their increasingly dark powers.
Etymology: Escalate, defecate
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