# 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:** 14

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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, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/261 "2003-06-25T16:51:51Z")

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**youriad** : A large number of thing belonging to someone else

**morphing**

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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, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/262 "2003-06-25T17:25:36Z")

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**snorphing** : sucking french fires into one’s nose

**guillotine**  
[BTW, what’s the SD record for posts on one thread? Anyone know?]

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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, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/263 "2003-06-25T17:38:34Z")

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**guillatrine** - when the cry is not, “off with his _head_”

**bombast**

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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, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/264 "2003-06-25T17:42:24Z")

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**bumbast** : pretentios fart

**lactose**

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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, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/265 "2003-06-25T17:55:08Z")

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**lacnose** Milk left on your nose after drinking too fast from a glass.

**pollywog**

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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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/266 "2003-06-25T19:46:38Z")

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**Polywog** : the most popular young Christian toad on the SDMB

**critic**

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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, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/267 "2003-06-25T19:55:04Z")

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**critick** : a small, judgemental insect

**permissable**

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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, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/268 "2003-06-25T20:07:55Z")

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**Afromissable** : An allowed African hair Style

**juxtaposition**

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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, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/269 "2003-06-25T21:21:07Z")

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**juntaposition** Seizing power by placing a group of military officers next to a country’s rulers in order to intimidate them.

**subterfuge**

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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, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/270 "2003-06-25T22:14:46Z")

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[sub]I guess I should go with the obvious[/sub]

**supterfuge** : a superbly honest strategem

**coyote**

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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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/271 "2003-06-25T23:57:10Z")

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**Koiote** : Aquatic canine, prized by Japanese collectors.

**sunburn**

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**Author:** ![mrsface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@mrsface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsface)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/272 "2003-06-26T00:39:12Z")

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**sunbarn** cowshed with an atrium  
**transubstantiation**

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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 26, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/273 "2003-06-26T00:41:08Z")

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**tramsubstantiation** - God under the form of public transportation

**cholera**

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**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/274 "2003-06-26T01:01:47Z")

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**collara** - a fatal disease of shirts, one of the most well-known symptoms of which is the evil scourge of TV commercials: ring around the collar.

**retriever**

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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 26, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/275 "2003-06-26T01:08:55Z")

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**retrover** - a fashionably retro canine

**dalliance**

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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 26, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/276 "2003-06-26T01:09:07Z")

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**rotriever** n. A breed of dog which digs up things which you buried in the garden several months ago, and brings them back for you.

**paroxysm**

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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 26, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/277 "2003-06-26T01:11:42Z")

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And… **dallidance** n. A frivolous dance.

I’ll keep **paroxysm**.

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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 26, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/278 "2003-06-26T01:54:51Z")

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**parocksism** : Political system based on putting stones together in two.

**scholarship**

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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 26, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/279 "2003-06-26T14:53:01Z")

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**scholardinghy** : Lesser scholarship, possibly with an inflated value.

**shrapnel**

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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 26, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/280 "2003-06-26T15:26:04Z")

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**crapnel** : airborne poo

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