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DEFINITION: A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly through long explications, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say.

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Sloliloquist

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: slow-lill-a-kwist

Sentence: Alas, poor Rick, was such a slowliloquist that he would never again tread the boards as Hamlet. He was still to-being or not-to-being when the last members of the audience reached home.

Etymology: slow + soliloquist

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Epiplod

Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: ep-uh-plod

Sentence: Ken was a bigger epiplod than most politicians.

Etymology: epilogue - (a concluding speech) and plod - (trudge, slow)

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Slowworder

Created by: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I have no time to discuss with such a slowworder

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Yawnyacker

Created by: logorrhoea

Pronunciation: yawn-yak-er

Sentence: Bill is such a yawnyacker - people have been known to commit suicide rather than wait for him to stop talking.

Etymology: yawn + yack (persistent annoying chatter)

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Windlag

joelb

Created by: joelb

Pronunciation: WIND-lag

Sentence: By now I knew the directions, but the windlag wouldn't stop telling me where to find the on-ramp.

Etymology: wingbag + lag

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Loquaster

Created by: plan9

Pronunciation: low+qway+ster

Sentence: A true loquaster, Bob never failed to use 1,000 words spoken slowly when 100 uttered quickly would do.

Etymology: loquacious + waster

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Orabore

Created by: jpmikkers

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Vertardious

Created by: DrHarvey

Pronunciation: Ver-tard-i-us

Sentence: The intern stood there, pencil on paper, waiting for the daily plan from his vertardious consultant who meandered on about the importance of vigilant fluid management.

Etymology: 'Ver' - of the verbal form. 'Tardus' - Slow, latin.

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Talkoner

Created by: leogd

Pronunciation: tawk on er

Sentence: he's a real talkoner

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Loqwaitcious

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: loh-KWAYT-shuhs

Sentence: Alex fell asleep during the loqwaitcious ramblings of his date's explaining how she had finally come to the decision to go out with him.

Etymology: loquacious (talkative) + wait

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DrHarvey - 2007-08-28: 09:37:00
Vertardious