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DEFINITION: n. A person who has the highly developed ability to communicate on a direct level with any type of animal, except for human beings. v. To talk to animals because you know that communicating with people is useless.
Verboticisms
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Zoochat
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: zoo' - chat
Sentence: Jodi was a real quackadoodle when it came to the animal kingdom, she much preferred to zoochat with the animals than the human race
Etymology: zoo ( Gr. animals) + chat (talk, converse, communicate)
Ostrichize
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: ostrich-size
Sentence: Jennifre, engaged deep in a coversation with a snow leopard at the zoo, ignored the sneers and giggles of people passing by. The cat-whisperer, ostrichized from society, knew that her feline friends were her true companions
Etymology: Ostrich + Ostracize
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COMMENTS:
Yes, her hippie parents named her Jennifre. - youmustvotenato, 2011-10-21: 10:27:00
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Critterpatter
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: critr-patr
Sentence: Angelina had a tough time communicating with most adults but had a gift of critterpatter, a unique ability to communicate with creatures of all kinds.
Etymology: 'Critter' (creature) 'patter' (talk)
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COMMENTS:
cute word - mweinmann, 2009-05-18: 22:44:00
super - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:12:00
nice - galwaywegian, 2010-06-04: 03:32:00
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Loonatic
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: loon a tik
Sentence: Fauna could always understand all animal voices and in particular had a great rapport with all forms of waterfowl. She could translate duckdialect, goosegarble,swanspeak and in particular, loonlingo. In fact, the people she ignored thought her a loonatic, when she spoke loonatalk!
Etymology: Wordplay on Lunatic (a crazy person;insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon) + Loon (a waterfowl)
Anication
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: an-uh-kay-shun
Sentence: When Angie started talking to the mosquitos, her parents knew she was practicing anication. She refused to speak to any human being, claiming that animals and/or insects were far superior in intelligence; meaning they made better conversation as well.
Etymology: Animal (lions and tigers and bears..oh my!) + communication (to speak with)
Faunetical
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fawn/eh/tic/al
Sentence: Josie was highly faunetical and could use her grasp of faunics to communicate with fauna all over the world.
Etymology: phonetic + fauna
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COMMENTS:
Josie is obviously a highly talented human willing and able to faunacate with all animals. Another brilliant word! - Stevenson0, 2008-03-28: 07:00:00
She is particularly faund of farm animals, especially Mr. Ed because of his large........vocabulary. - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 08:57:00
Excellent: great use of "fauna". Is she the same Josie of "Josie and the Pussycats" fame? I guess she spoke to them in "Catalan " What a faunabulary! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 23:30:00
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Featherbrain
Created by: theCountess
Pronunciation: feather-brain
Sentence: Boring old definition of featherbrain: an emptyheaded person Verboticized new definition of featherbrain: an emptyheaded person who uses only fowl language
Etymology: Featherhead: noun, Old English; to have feathers for brains
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COMMENTS:
It must be fowl play.. or maybe vowel play :P - dochanne, 2009-05-18: 03:19:00
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Conversape
Created by: werdnurd
Pronunciation: con - ver - sape
Sentence: Lydia, left alone in the jungles, was living a life of bare subsistence on roots, bugs and other things she was able to forage. Then, one day, she began to conversape with the local tribe of chimpanzees. They told her where all of the best fruit could be found, and kept her in the loop regarding the local gossip.
Etymology: from the slang verb, conversate - and ape (n) being the animal itself and ape (v) to bemoan
Diafrog
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dīəfrôg
Sentence: Unable to find her prince, Jessica is left talking to any number of toads. She’s been known to work her tale off on this one-sided diafrog.
Etymology: dialogue (conversation between two or more people) + frog (a tailless amphibian with a short squat body, moist smooth skin, and very long hind legs for leaping) Unwilling alter ego of princes in fairy tales.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by leechdude. Thank you leechdude. ~ James
stache - 2008-03-28: 01:36:00
Great 'toon, as usual. Thanks for the def, too, leechdude.
stache - 2008-03-28: 17:48:00
thanks, JW.
stache - 2008-03-28: 17:50:00
oops. wrong box.
We are starting our summer season at Verbotomy today -- which means we are re-doing some of favorite Verbotomies from the past. Today's definition was suggested by leechdude. Thank you leechdude ~ James
readerwriter - 2009-05-18: 10:06:00
Whew...thanks for the update! I thought it was reducks...
Reducks revisited... ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by leechdude. Thank you leechdude. ~ James
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