OK, a challenge for all you nimble-minded wordsters. Replace one or more syllables of a word with another word to mint an original combination, with a humorous definition:

When someone is obsessed with another person to the point they are incessantly faxing love poems to the other, you could say one has a faxation on the other.

When someone has gotten to the point they are making constant, ridculous requests of God, you might say they are being prayposterous.



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You mean like “reintarnation” is when you come back as a hillbilly?

like John Prescott's denial about Dubya's foreign policy "there is no truth in this story it's all craptrap"

Mike

Actually just noted after posting that I was in technical breach of your drill.....replaced a consonant iso of syllable...

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A key element of the Halberstein Plan, aimed at resolving problems in the Middle East: Kurdisdan.

Classic African adventure flick starring Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Marcel Marceau, Charles Chaplin: King Solomon's Mimes



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swelterweight (a person's weight after a heat wave)

rambulatory (long-winded)

cahooters (WonderBra's residents)

divine afflatulence (oh my God!)

grandulloquent (very boring)

instufferable (quail for Thanksgiving)


Catherine

sawnit: the handful of lines (out of the fourteen you workshopped) identified by critters as "THERE'S your poem!"

seenit: clichéed fourteen-line poem

zeroic couplets: long IP poem featuring adjacent rhyme pairs and no worthwhile content

villaknell: death-themed poem in a repetitive French form

villanoël: Christmas-themed poem in a repetitive French form

triolé: bullfighting-themed poem in a repetitive French form

rondeaudeau: extinct bird-themed poem in a repetitive French form

whyku: pointless Japanese-inspired poem

stanka: slightly longer pointless Japanese-inspired poem

cleriwho: clever biographical quatrain about some literary celebrity you've never heard of

limericktus: pained, polite smile everyone gives when the boss recites "There once was a girl from Nantucket" for the millionth time

desistina: restraining order forbidding sestinas within 50 feet of an open mic

ROFLMAO

Now, who's doing the dustcover? *grin*

Brilliant, Julie, you have made my day (it's 7 am for some people)

Alexandrone: A boring hexameter poem, or the writer of such poems.

Arseonance: Words with a similarity of bowel sounds.

Blonk Verse: Unrhymed I.P. poems about the French Alps.

Ducktyl: A webbed metrical foot.

Diemeter: A failed attempt at a short-line metrical poem.

Enjamment: Poems soiled by sticky fingers.

Pantameter: Erotic poem in five beat lines.

Sustina: A poem in a complex form which should not have been written.

Confatuation - what happens when normally intelligent women begin exchanging email with convicted serial killers

Benjamatic - The automated response of a stripper when she sees a $100.00 bill

Neurotica - a sexual obsession with women on Prozac

Robalization - when the thought hits a man that the only thing his wife ever wears around the house is a ratty old house-coat

Scholarchip - Frito Lays new snack food aimed at brainiacs

Foxclaimation - any biased news announcement made by a right wing newscaster

Eratocide- - what you commit when you post a scarastic response to a poem written by a moderator