# Word morphing game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668>\
**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:** 13

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**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 24, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/241 "2003-06-24T23:13:00Z")

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**Plaidge** : a loud, colorful oath

**Granular**

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/242 "2003-06-24T23:14:31Z")

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**Branular** : gritty roughage

**Dissect**

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/243 "2003-06-24T23:15:35Z")

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\*oops, sorry, wrong part of speech – that should be " **like** gritty roughage

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**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 24, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/244 "2003-06-24T23:39:22Z")

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**Dislect** : to cut open the wrong frog

**Ferret**

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**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/245 "2003-06-25T03:19:15Z")

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**ferrest** - the prettiest weasel-like critter

**dromedary**

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**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/246 "2003-06-25T03:29:02Z")

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**dronedary** adj. (_derog._) Of a co-worker - both hunchbacked and boring in conversation.

**persiflage**

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**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/247 "2003-06-25T03:44:02Z")

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**parsliphage** - garnish-eater

**utopian**

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/248 "2003-06-25T11:14:50Z")

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**Utaupian** : a perfect world in earth tones

**desultory**

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/249 "2003-06-25T11:29:39Z")

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**desultry** : haphazard, but really, really sexy

**intermittent**

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**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/250 "2003-06-25T12:07:03Z")

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**interpittant** - infrequently flamed, as one of the “lesser” mods, such as **UncleBeer**.

**children**

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**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/251 "2003-06-25T14:01:35Z")

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**childrun** : 1) A schoolyard footrace  
2) When a kid has been VERY naughty and runs away to escape Mom’s wrath  
**dermatology**

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/252 "2003-06-25T14:08:48Z")

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**dernatology** : a branch of science dedicated to figuring out what’s in Bruce Dern’s head.

**obsequious**

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**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 25, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/253 "2003-06-25T14:28:05Z")

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**Obsegueous** : transitioning into toadiness

**Autonomy**

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**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/254 "2003-06-25T14:38:53Z")

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**autistimony** : a wedding that cost about hundred dollars, yeah, d-definitely about hundred dollars. Uhhg. Time for Jeorpardy!

**ptomaine**

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**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 25, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/255 "2003-06-25T14:45:11Z")

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**Pantomaine** : acting out the symptoms of food poisoning

**Shuffle**

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/256 "2003-06-25T14:47:48Z")

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**shumple** : pedestrian sex

**Chevrolet**

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**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 25, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/257 "2003-06-25T15:28:48Z")

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**Gorbachevrolet** : Russia’s first design for a capatalist vehicle.

**Blancmange**

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/258 "2003-06-25T15:40:47Z")

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**Blankmanged** The blank mind effect of not knowing how to morph blancmange into anything else. So effective that a sweet milk pudding substance oozes from the victim’s ears.

**Rolodex**

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**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 25, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/259 "2003-06-25T15:52:44Z")

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**womange** - a very, um,… cuddly woman

Damn, on preview…  
**prolodex** - file system specifically for the unwashed masses

**prologue**

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**Author:** ![yoyo3500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yoyo3500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyo3500)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/260 "2003-06-25T16:13:26Z")

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**prelog** : what the lump of plastic is called before it is formed into a Lincoln Log.

**myriad**

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