# Word morphing game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668 "2003-06-18T10:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1 "2003-06-18T10:25:16Z")
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… **green** ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/2 "2003-06-18T11:37:18Z")
**Greep** – smarmy environmentalist **shoe** ---
**Author:** ![Latch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Latch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latch)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/3 "2003-06-18T11:53:40Z")
shocks – shoes and socks toaster ---
**Author:** ![Latch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Latch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latch)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/4 "2003-06-18T11:54:53Z")
errr, with appropriate bolding, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/5 "2003-06-18T12:21:46Z")
**boaster** a toaster that both toasts AND butters your bread (doesn’t exist yet as far as I know - oops- now someone could make millions from my idea :smack: ) **elephant** ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/6 "2003-06-18T14:26:44Z")
**Irrelephant** : Something that’s obvious and cumbersome but of no real consequence. **Anomaly** ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/7 "2003-06-18T14:32:32Z")
**Chronomaly** : Something that doesn’t make sense, time-wise. **disaster** ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/8 "2003-06-18T15:07:12Z")
**Kissaster** : An attempt to suck up to the boss that goes horribly wrong. **window** ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/9 "2003-06-18T15:14:38Z")
**windor** : A window that either lifts to open or swings wide like a door. **effluent** ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/10 "2003-06-18T15:22:18Z")
**offluen** : Waste liquid which no longer flows away **sabotage** ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/11 "2003-06-18T15:40:35Z")
**sobotage** bring a project to a screeching halt by being a big crybaby. **clock** ---
**Author:** ![Latch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Latch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latch)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/12 "2003-06-18T15:47:55Z")
**Weathock** Weather Clock. Tells you the time and the current weather/weather forcast These probably exist somewhere already. **Freezer** ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/13 "2003-06-18T15:48:45Z")
**pock** A hockey puck that has a working clock face embedded on it to enable hockey players to pay attention to time left in the game better. **Multitude** ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/14 "2003-06-18T16:24:10Z")
**Faultitude** : The ignorant masses **Gheezer** : Indian Freezer for storing clarified Butter **Centipede** ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/15 "2003-06-18T16:24:43Z")
**Frisbeezer** : A very cold plastic disc that people throw to each other in parks. In Antarctica. **Cultitude** : A large gathering of brainwashed religious worshippers. **Skinflint** ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/16 "2003-06-18T16:24:53Z")
**Jeezer** : Either a freezer for members of the clergy, or one that breaks down all the time leading to vocal expressions of annoyance. **Mulletitude** : The bad attitude that mullet-haired men tend to have. **Stereo** ---
**Author:** ![macabresoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@macabresoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/macabresoul)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/17 "2003-06-18T16:35:26Z")
**Stere-O’s** Umm a new Kellogg cereal **spank** ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/18 "2003-06-18T16:36:58Z")
**stare-eo** - a combination of a rodeo and staring match - very difficult I’d imagine!!! **catastrophe** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/19 "2003-06-18T16:37:55Z")
**Freason** Meterological explantion for the sudden cold snap **Uglitude** An assembly of pulcritudinously challenged individuals. **Indecentipede** Bawdy chorus line of 50 girls **Slinfling** when a skinflint goes wild and buys a round **Stireo** A drinks stirrer with _two_ prongs. **splank** a _BIG_ stick for spanking people **Vomit** ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/20 "2003-06-18T17:05:34Z")
**Shomit** : Hungover, you’ve got to shit and vomit at the same time. **Retard** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668.md?page=2)