Word definition game

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

chthonophagia a rare, but debilitating disease which stems from reading too many HP Lovecraft novels.  Symptoms range from mild (a dread of the sea and/or dark closets), to severe (actual breaking out in tentacles).  Often accompanied by odd mutterings, such as, "strive to be eaten first"

Sciencefraction

[pieces o nine]

Sciencefraction  NOUN: breakaway group from scientific mainstream.
ETYMOLOGY: from Middle English via Latin, to know and to break.
USAGE: a group of sciencefractionists were studying the works of Erich von Däniken.


choroloscopy

[Pachyderm]

choroloscopy: noun (medical), procedure used to search for the presence of Brazilian Folk Music Syndrome. A Choroloscope is a medical tool, very similar to an endoscope, but attuned to musical vibrations.


campaniform

[Aphos]

campaniform  Any of a number of costumes commonly worn at science fiction conventions.  Most are copied from either Star Trek series or from Star Wars movies.


plastilurgy

[Swatopluk]

plastilurgy
1. A sexual perversion afflicting plastic surgeons
2. Evangelical liturgy outsourced to China

numlac

[Aphos]

numlac  a new medication for the treatment of innumeracy


topolitical

[Pachyderm]

topolitical: Topolitics (Greek topos, "place," and politic, "waste of space") is a branch of political science that is an extension of coprology. Topolitics begins with a consideration of the nature of political space, investigating both its fine structure and its global structure, ultimately to determine which of the various candidates is likely to do least harm.


vespacide

[Black Bart]

Swatting a wasp?

[Aphos]

Lacking a new word, I can offer no definition.  But I can offer a new word.



printuple

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

printuple To print a document in 5 parts.  History of usage: used to describe the requirements of any bureaucratic system in existence.  It came into common usage, as ink-jet and laser printers replaced the earlier impact-type printers.  This caused a switch from the use of 5 and 7 part carbon-paper collated forms to a multiple-print requirement.  (Use form Q7 stroke C, revision 7.5a) Thus, a document is printed in 5 parts, it is to printuple the document.  See also printocuple and printacade.


New word:

printank

[Aphos]

printank  past tense of printink

printink  to paint with paisley designs



speater

[pieces o nine]

speater  NOUN: Museum Conservation staff slang for male bog bodies.


cronkle

[Pachyderm]

cronkle: lovechild of Crackle and Pop from the Rice Crispies adverts


gramercy

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

gramercy Being kind to other posters on an internet forum, and overlooking their obvious grammatical mistakes, or their use of spelling 'shortcuts' reminiscent of cell phone text messages.

geekanoid

[Swatopluk]

geekanoid - being in the state of fear to be seen as a geek

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