# The NEW Word Morphing game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324 "2004-01-20T14:19:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/1 "2004-01-20T14:19:51Z")
All right, the Word morphing Game has been shut down because it’s a game and it takes too much system resources, etc. (For more look [there](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=231482)). I found this game really interesting and I’d like to put back on the road with \*\*one limitation \*\* : **One post per person per day max!!!** Thank you for your discipline. \*\* UncleBeer \*\*, moderators, if you feel that’s not going to work, feel free to shut this thread down. If not, LET’S ROLL!!! For those who don’t know, here is how it began : > [@](#): > > ## Word morphing game Proposed and Posted (Proposted?) by \*\* Libertarian \*\* in Nov. 1999 > > The idea of this game is to take an ordinary English word and add or change one or more letters to it to make a new but similar word. When you morph a word, provide its definition and then offer an ordinary word of your own for the next Doper. If there’s overlap, just pick one and go. > > Here’s an example. Say someone offered possible. Then I might go: > > possible -\> prossible: somewhere between possible and probable. > > Here’s another, table: > > table -\> chable: a combination chair and table. Okay, here’s the first candidate… \*\* Ossification \*\* * * * The old game [there](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4397594#post4397594) ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/2 "2004-01-20T16:05:03Z")
**Ossivacation** - What skeletons go on when they get a little weary of the graveyard. **holiday** ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/3 "2004-01-20T16:43:04Z")
> [@Ex Machina](#): > > **holiday** holi **p** ay - a pay-period in which payday is the Friday before a long, holiday weekend such as the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend. ---
**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/4 "2004-01-20T17:18:49Z")
need a new word \*\* JuanitaTech \*\* 🙂 … ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/5 "2004-01-20T20:45:27Z")
> [@french frog](#): > > need a new word \*\* JuanitaTech \*\* 🙂 … Sorry. **postcard** ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/6 "2004-01-20T22:28:43Z")
> [@JuanitaTech](#): > > Sorry. > > **postcard** PestCard: the card with which you pay your exterminator bills next word: borborygmus ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/7 "2004-01-21T01:27:02Z")
> [@](#): > > borborygmus beerborygmus. The practice of burping to make room for more beer and wings during Monday Night Football. New Word: Justify. ---
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/8 "2004-01-21T01:33:24Z")
justafly there’s only one and it’s not very big and it is buzzing around the room. _ambidextrous_ ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/9 "2004-01-21T02:09:54Z")
lambidextrous- a lamb that can use it’s left limbs just as well as it’s right limbs hypoglycemic ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/10 "2004-01-21T07:13:37Z")
hippoglycemic – pertaining to an aquatic pachyderm afflicted with low blood sugar **genuflect** ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/11 "2004-01-21T07:56:58Z")
**genuflirt** - A motion made with the hands when flirting with words is not enough. **cacophony** ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/12 "2004-01-21T08:04:38Z")
**cocophony** – a fake Chanel suit. quibble ---
**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/13 "2004-01-21T12:33:24Z")
\*\* Quibbrothel \*\* - Place where the prices may change after the rendition of the service for petty reasons. \*\* Rendition \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/14 "2004-01-21T20:51:19Z")
**remdition** - A cover of an REM song by another band (or vice versa). **guitar** ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/15 "2004-01-22T05:24:49Z")
**quitar** – the instrument used to play “Take This Job and Shove It” as you storm out of your hellhole of an office for the last time **hellmouth** ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/16 "2004-01-22T06:17:42Z")
**cellmouth** - one who talks incessantly on a cell phone, especially in public **incessant** ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/17 "2004-01-22T11:33:51Z")
**insussant** - Unable to figure things out **purity** ---
**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/18 "2004-01-22T13:03:57Z")
- Hey welcome back \*\* Libertarian\*\*, your legacy is here! 😉 \* \*\* Hotspurity \*\* - Ambivalent mix of sinless and violent behavior, caracteristic of the dipolar-compulsive manic-narcolepsy Lunds-Bergstrom Disorder \*\* legacy \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/19 "2004-01-22T21:58:16Z")
\*\*legasse \*\* - Cooking paraphernalia and recipes handed down by a Portugese chef. **restaurant** ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2004, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324/20 "2004-01-23T09:09:45Z")
**festaurant** – the agreed upon dining place for Dopers to meet to kick off a Dopefest nitpick [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-word-morphing-game/225324.md?page=2)