# 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:** 31
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/601 "2003-10-08T15:15:03Z")
**cure-ass** - a healing type of person who is also a smart-ass by nature. Jokes will abound, beware. **fiddle** ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/602 "2003-10-08T16:09:21Z")
**fibble** : To lie about your skill at playing violin. **blockbuster** ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/603 "2003-10-08T17:05:09Z")
**blockduster** - the latest home appliance – just drop it and it’ll blow all the dust out of your house. **vainglorious** ---
**Author:** ![dannyv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@dannyv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dannyv)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/604 "2003-10-08T17:11:22Z")
**plainglorious** - one fantastic piece of work, if i do say so myself **fantastic** ---
**Author:** ![dannyv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@dannyv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dannyv)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/605 "2003-10-08T17:13:04Z")
aaarg! ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/606 "2003-10-08T17:15:26Z")
**fanplastic** - a devotee of Styrofoam. **blaaarg** – a blogger who has never mastered coding. **preview** ---
**Author:** ![dannyv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@dannyv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dannyv)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/607 "2003-10-08T17:41:16Z")
**prestew** how to make your meat mushier than you can imagine. **photography** ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/608 "2003-10-08T17:54:10Z")
**phatography** - biography of a rapper. **distressed** ---
**Author:** ![dannyv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@dannyv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dannyv)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/609 "2003-10-08T18:17:04Z")
**disdressed** - the state you find your spouse in when you find them with someone else. **slurp** ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/610 "2003-10-08T20:43:04Z")
**sburp** - beltch issued when drinking soup **shambolic** ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/611 "2003-10-08T21:15:02Z")
**shambolic** - of or pertaining to iconic images used in the worship of false gods. **bellornivation** ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/612 "2003-10-08T22:03:09Z")
Three cats, you’ve made that one up I think (well it isn’t in my dictionary or anywhere online) what is **bellornivation**? **hellhornivation** - the playing of a misstuned trumpet **tintinabulation** ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/613 "2003-10-08T22:39:07Z")
**tintinfoilabulation** - wearing one of those homamade, crumpled metallic hats, to keep the aliens at bay, while ringing all the bells in your apartment. **purple** ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/614 "2003-10-08T22:49:03Z")
Whoops! **Bippy** , you’re right – I got this game confused with the Word Definition game. :smack: But then, what the heck is _shambolic_, huh? HUH??? Were you planning to write _symbolic_, but instead typed what you’d have morphed it to? :dubious: Methinks I’ve been led astray by the very one who now chastises ME!!! :rolleyes: Anyway, to put the ball back into play: **furple** - What PETA activists think animals are. **venality** ---
**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:** [October 8, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/615 "2003-10-08T23:04:10Z")
shambolic - having the characteristic of a shambles, confused, disorderly, chaotic … **vienality** Willingness to sell your blood to a vampire. cf. blood-doll **swelter** ---
**Author:** ![Morrisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Morrisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrisa)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/616 "2003-10-08T23:10:44Z")
**Swellter** To wallow in one’s own swell nature. **Brindle** ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/617 "2003-10-09T00:24:20Z")
**BVDrindle** - skidmarks, fore and aft **button** ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/618 "2003-10-09T01:14:26Z")
**butteon** – a crampon specially adapted to climbing small mesas **narcissist** ---
**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:** [October 9, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/619 "2003-10-09T01:16:43Z")
Shambolic? Now that I’m home from the office, I can check. Hmmmm… Not in my Webster’s Unabridged; is in my Encarta, though, as a late 20th century hybrid of shambles and symbolic. Well, well. I learn something new every day. **bunton** - getting to first base on an infield grounder. **obsolescent** ---
**Author:** ![Morrisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Morrisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrisa)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/620 "2003-10-09T01:17:57Z")
**Narcissister** A sister who spends excessive amounts of time grooming her hair and applying makeup. **Mellifluous** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668.md?page=32)