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What is a Vocabulover? A person who loves vocabulary, of course.

A Vocabulovers article features many juicy words. The challenge with each article is to combine them all into a single sentence. Here are the contests and contributions we've had so far. Vocabulovers of the world, stand up and show off your wordiness!

Kudos and felicitations to these august winners of prizes so vast they defy description!

First vocabulovers' feature: Zaftig, 6/19/2005. Words: quibble, zaftik/g, progenitors, Palestinian, succulent, zeppelin, studmuffin, adolescence, and Rubenesque.

“Let's not quibble,” breathed Mohammed, the Palestinian studmuffin, into my ear, “over whether you're zaftig or Rubenesque. Even if your progenitors are infidels, you must come away with me in my zeppelin, because I've dreamed of a succulent woman like you since my adolescence.” -- Julie

"The Palestinian surveyed the group, subconsciously seeking a woman who would make his progenitors proud, someone truly Rubenesque, with whom he would explore the world by zeppelin, nipping her succulent neck playfully as they quibbled amicably over whether the long string of skinny, dimwitted cheerleaders he was sentenced to date in adolescence was due to his being a studmuffin or if the high school Vocabulovers had pinned the term on him knowing it would keep the most desirable, zaftig girls at bay." -- Karen

Second Vocabulovers' feature: Pronunciation guide for dolts from the boondocks, 1/11/2006. Words: boondocks, patina, behemoth, nictitate, masticate, pervert, Federal Financial Aid Act, damn, castrate, and llama.

"While sitting at a coffee shop in the boondocks filling out the stack of forms required by the Federal Financial Aid Act while scraping patina off my last penny, I noticed a damn pervert nicitate at me while riding his llama past the shop which made me so angry I summoned my behemoth from the alley who proceeded to castrate the pervert and masticate on his genitals." -- Kathy

"There are so many damn words to use in this sentence, far more reaching words (and possibly sexually explicit) than even those used in the Federal Financial Aid Act, an Act performed [or was it simply created?] in the remotest boondocks by such a congregation of politicians (eeew, don‘t make me think about that), that a patina developed on every coin ever masticated by a behemoth llama, so that no one, I say, no one could so much as nictitate at, let alone castrate the pervert who wrote it!!" -- Laura

"Once upon a time, while strolling in the boondocks, I came across a patina covered behemoth masticating. I swear he nictitated at me.  Then suddenly  there was a damn llama the Federal Financial Aid Act  wanted to catch and castrate to save money on future student loans for the foolish study of such things. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it." -- Melba

Congratulations to these Vocabulovers! Send your submissions and comments to julie@jbwriter.com!

 

© 2005, Julianna Berry.