# 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:** 15

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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, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/281 "2003-06-26T20:59:40Z")

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**arctive** v. To run around and/or flap your arms around to keep yourself from freezing.

**bellicose**

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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, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/282 "2003-06-26T21:33:53Z")

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**bellycose** : Militant anti sizism

**perambulator**

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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 27, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/283 "2003-06-27T03:11:11Z")

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**percambulator** - cheers your baby up while you stroll

**admonish**

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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 27, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/284 "2003-06-27T04:49:22Z")

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**admonkish** v. To give religious disapproval.

**cupboard**

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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 27, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/285 "2003-06-27T11:31:07Z")

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**Cupbored** - state of ennui after too many tea parties

**Testicles**

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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 27, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/286 "2003-06-27T14:35:41Z")

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**testicless** : fewer than two

**balsamic**

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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 27, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/287 "2003-06-27T15:10:49Z")

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**Testsicles** - the frozen balls of a brass monkey\*

Damn, on preview:

**ballsamic** - an ointment reputed to sooth the pain of a **testicless** experience

**income**  
\*Do you merkins use the idiom “cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey”?

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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 27, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/288 "2003-06-27T15:34:20Z")

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**inkome** : Wages for a novelist

**flint**

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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 27, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/289 "2003-06-27T18:15:01Z")

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**flent** : a very soft, rather useless, fine-grained quartz used by Catholics, Lutherans, and Episcopalians between Ash Wednesday and Easter.

**sauerkraut**

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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 27, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/290 "2003-06-27T19:49:01Z")

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**sourkrout** - being in a bad mood because you’ve already cooked the hot dogs when you discover that you’re out of condiments

**pepperoni**

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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 27, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/291 "2003-06-27T20:23:10Z")

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**saltoni** - for those who don’t like vinegar on their chips (US: freedom fries ([other english food crimes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=192710)))

**freedom**

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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 27, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/292 "2003-06-27T20:38:28Z")

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**freedumb** : things you can do but who’d want to?

**assassinate**

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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 27, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/293 "2003-06-27T20:38:33Z")

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**freedumb** : The right to stupidity, one of the foundations of American culture.

**cunnilingus**

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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 27, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/294 "2003-06-27T21:30:15Z")

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**Cunnilingass** oral sex applied to … you get the idea

**Fungus**

(PS this post is supposed to include the cunnilingus and the assassinate posts)

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/295 "2003-06-27T21:58:39Z")

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Fuckus: what the current administration is trying to do

Barnacle

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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 27, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/296 "2003-06-27T22:32:39Z")

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**Barnoracle** : prophet who makes predictions about farm buildings.

**ottoman**

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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 28, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/297 "2003-06-28T00:19:05Z")

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**bottoman** : A practitioner of Cunnilingass

**swinger**

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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 28, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/298 "2003-06-28T10:20:37Z")

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**fwinger** : a person with perpetually curious and probing fingers

**dubious**

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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 28, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/299 "2003-06-28T10:35:16Z")

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**dubidubidubious** - having the quality of mumbled lyrics

**cranky**

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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 30, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/300 "2003-06-30T16:30:34Z")

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**cwalky** : Similar to cranky, but slower and steadier.

**astrologer**

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