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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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Wordslogger
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈwɚdˌslɑɡɚ/
Sentence: The wordslogger's tenacity might have been inspiring if context hadn't made it abundantly clear what he was trying to say three sentences into his soliloquy.
Etymology: From word + slog + -er
Drawlful
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: draul ful
Sentence: W h e n F r e d t o l d a j o k e i t w a s s l o w a n d d r a w l f u l .
Etymology: Drawl (a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels; lengthen and slow down or draw out) & Awful (not nice)
Syllabroadening
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sill a brawd enn ing
Sentence: his syllabroadining was so pronounced, it took him two minutes to say"two minutes"
Etymology: syllable, broaden
Draggingdrawl
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Drag-ing-drawl
Sentence: Southern Slowpoke Sam was such a draggingdrawl speaker...you would want to pull his words out with your hands!
Etymology: Dragging; failure to act with the necessary promptness or vigor. Drawl; to utter in a slow lengthened tone.
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COMMENTS:
Love it, but had already spent my votes! Cheers. - Nosila, 2009-09-25: 00:35:00
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Monotonacity
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: mon-O-tone-as-city
Sentence: Jill spoke to David with monotonacity, determined to make her point, droning on and on till David finally fell asleep.
Etymology: monotone/tenacity,persistant determination
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COMMENTS:
This is the defining characteristic of Ben Stein's character in Ferris Beuller's Day Off. - ErWenn, 2007-03-03: 08:25:00
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Crawldrawl
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Crall-drall
Sentence: Once he starts with his crawldrawl the wide awake sleep and the comatose die.
Etymology: Crawl(to move slowly) + Drawl(lengthened syllables)
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
Likeahdrone
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lyk/ah/droe/n
Sentence: A likeahdrone is an individual who intersperses like ah between every word
Etymology: like ah + drone (to go on and on and on)
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COMMENTS:
I've like ah come like ah across some of like those - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-02: 10:35:00
You must be Canadian like ah, EH? - Stevenson0, 2007-03-02: 17:57:00
Although we are aussies are guilty of putting ays on the end of sentences, the kiwis do this something chronic. Would that be the antipodean version of ah? - petaj, 2007-03-02: 19:59:00
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Dialaudler
Created by: sonic101
Pronunciation: di-a-laud-ler
Sentence: Rebecca just goes on and on, always being a dialaudler
Etymology: dialog+daudle=dialaudler
Forrestgumpism
Created by: euclid
Pronunciation: forest+gump+ism
Sentence: come on with your bullshit.
Etymology: forrest gump=a long ass explination of a number of years that could have been described in a sentence like:"a mentally challenged man grew up in a society whose government chose to go to war."
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