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DEFINITION: n. A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say. v. To talk in a painfully slow manner.
Verboticisms
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Droneprone
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: drone/prone
Sentence: Pierre Pantperhog was known among family, friends, and foes alike as a dithering "droneprone" dude.
Etymology: drone + prone
Forestgumpitis
Created by: subakamoo
Pronunciation: for-est-gump-itis
Sentence: Man, he's talking so slow, seems like he has FORESTGUMPITIS.
Etymology: The movie Forest Gump, coming from the way Forest talks.
Boreatone
Created by: eddie
Pronunciation: bor/a/toan
Sentence: Steve "The Slug" Jones speaks in such a boreatone manner that he has been known to talk people to sleep.
Etymology: boredom + monotone
Sprechenlager
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: shprek-en-lah-ger
Sentence: I'm sorry I'm late! Some sprechenlager at the DMV kept me there for two hours while he explained why it's bad to run a red light!
Etymology: Take off on the German for "speak"="sprechen" + "lag" meaning "to delay" + "er" which is the ending for changing a verb into a personal noun in German
Hourator
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ow ray tor
Sentence: Father Murphy's houratory style had a very wholesome effect on anyone thinking sinful thoughts. After one of his sermons no one could remember what sins they were thinking of committing, not even the ones who remained awake
Etymology: orator, hour
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COMMENTS:
Houray for you! - Nosila, 2009-09-22: 10:57:00
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Monotologue
Created by: kateh
Pronunciation: muh NOT uh log
Sentence: Once Peter starts on one of his monotologues, you had better be prepared with some strong coffee to keep yourself awake.
Etymology: monotony and monologue
Monolonguer
Created by: magenta
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He is a classic monolonguer, he just never stops going on and on...
Etymology: Monologue and long
Snainic
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: sne nik
Sentence: He takes too much time in conveying a single idea , he is a real snainic.
Etymology: snail: an animal which moves very slowly. sonic: sound waves , relating to sound
Talkumentary
Created by: aj3131
Pronunciation: Talk-u-mentary
Sentence: Everybody want the dude to stop giving us a talkumentary about how he scraped the pimples off his back.
Etymology: talk + (doc)umentary
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COMMENTS:
i really like it but it seems to be more the things the person is saying instead of the actual person...? its good otherwise - ekath, 2007-03-06: 22:16:00
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Longuist
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: lon gwist'
Sentence: My friend Daryl, a gifted longuist, knows how to leave a voice mail message that, while saying very little, is so drawn out it exceeds the voice mail time limit. Starting with a period of silence followed by "Uhhh... heyyy..." just adds to the effect.
Etymology: long + linguist
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0.
Thank you Stevenson0! ~ James
BMott - 2007-03-09: 00:10:00
Loved this one!
Today's definition was suggested by Stevenson0. Thank you Stevenson0. ~ James
Hey Verbotomists, Jasper Fforde is sending us signed copy of The Eyre Affair for the top writer this week. I guess Fforde did not want to see his heroine, Thursday Next, trapped in verbalaze of boratoric snailocution. ~ James