# 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:** 67

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**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1321 "2003-11-18T15:50:15Z")

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**anugram** - telegram from a Babylonian sky god  
**conjoin**

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**Author:** ![Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_scratch_fever)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1322 "2003-11-18T18:01:01Z")

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conjoint

a joint made with oregano instead of weed  
jukebox

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**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1323 "2003-11-18T18:11:04Z")

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**ukebox** - where you keep your ukulele

**ukulele**

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**Author:** ![GuinnessGuzzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@GuinnessGuzzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuinnessGuzzler)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1324 "2003-11-18T19:16:23Z")

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**usulele** - North American stringed instrument

**instrumental**

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**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:** [November 18, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1325 "2003-11-18T20:40:43Z")

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**sinstrumental** - a sex toy

**wheedle**

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1326 "2003-11-18T22:22:02Z")

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**wheedull** – to trick someone into doing something by boring him until he agrees, if only to shut you up

**excruciating**

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1327 "2003-11-19T02:14:03Z")

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**lexcruciating** - being hurt by words.

**blatherskite**

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**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:** [November 19, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1328 "2003-11-19T02:32:19Z")

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**blathersblimp** - a real gasbag

**gasbag**

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1329 "2003-11-19T03:06:02Z")

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**grassbag** – an old stoner who’s always bragging about his marijuana-smoking escapades (“Man, there was this time I was gettin’ high with Dennis Hopper and Hunter S. Thompson when suddenly the most gorgeous chick walked up holdin’ an ounce of _ganja_ she had scored off Bob Marley himself after sleeping with him on his tour bus…”)

**counterculture**

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1330 "2003-11-19T04:03:11Z")

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**countercultures** - what you get when you don’t wipe down the Formica thoroughly.

**crumble**

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**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1331 "2003-11-19T10:44:21Z")

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**crumbull** - only slightly BS

**interlocutor**

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1332 "2003-11-19T11:38:29Z")

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**splinterlocutor** - someone who can’t talk because they have something stuck in their tongue.

**dungarees**

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**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1333 "2003-11-19T11:51:46Z")

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**dungaroos** - overalls worn by marsupials

**marsupial**

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**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1334 "2003-11-19T18:19:18Z")

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\*\* Venusupial \*\* - Female moody version of those animals.

BuddytoBud \*\* Strength \*\* got lost so here is :  
\*\* Strentch \*\* - a really strong odor

\*\* idiosyncratic \*\*

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**Author:** ![french\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c77e96/32.png) [@french\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/french_frog)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1335 "2003-11-19T18:21:10Z")

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…and I meant \*\* Strench \*\*…

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**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:** [November 19, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1336 "2003-11-19T21:33:05Z")

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**idiotstinkratic** - very stupid and very smelly

**belligerent**

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**Author:** ![Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_scratch_fever)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1337 "2003-11-20T00:44:21Z")

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bellygerent

chubby and mouthy

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**Author:** ![Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_scratch_fever)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1338 "2003-11-20T00:48:33Z")

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forgot to add my word:

armchair

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**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1339 "2003-11-20T01:06:27Z")

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**karmashare** – kind of like a timeshare, only everyone who invests in this one _will_ get something positive out of the experience… depending on what they do with the karma that’s alloted them, of course.

New Word:

glissando

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**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:** [November 20, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-morphing-game/182668/1340 "2003-11-20T02:19:57Z")

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**blissando** - the feeling of bliss sending shivers up one’s spine

**venerable**

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