Verboticisms

Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: pet/ril/o/quist

Sentence: A petriloquist is an interpeter who can understand and mimic pets.

Etymology: pet + ventriloquist

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: gloss-o-mam-mail-i-a

Sentence: Emma, Dr. Doolittle's faithful assistant received the gift of glossomammalia one night at an ASPCA rally. She was an especially talented duck whisperer and soon was given her own show on Animal Planet where she would drive to the homes of people who had pets with issues and grievances against their owners. Eventually she went into animalaw, and succesfully argued in front of the Supreme Court to change the law to allow pets to sue their owners for cruelty.

Etymology: Glossolalia: "The gift of tongues" an estatic speech uttered in the worship services of several sects stressing emotion and religious ferver + mammalia: mammal, the highest class of vertebra.

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COMMENTS:

Strangely animerotic word. very good. - metrohumanx, 2009-05-18: 02:17:00

Animammerotic mammocentrism of the highest order! (but not the 'highest class' since none is 'higher' than another) - dochanne, 2009-05-18: 03:14:00

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Created by: naxos22

Pronunciation: duck - lip - whisper-er

Sentence: A ducklipwhisperer speaks to ducks

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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

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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)

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Created by: Kevin0719

Pronunciation: cree-ah-calm

Sentence: Eli would often sit and chat with the possums right before we ate them, but once he was at the dinner table he showed his creacom colors by only chittering and humping the table leg.

Etymology: "creature" and "communication"

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COMMENTS:

funny sentence, kev. you from alabama, or mississippi? gotta be one of the two. or arkansas. maybe texas? - stache, 2008-03-30: 20:49:00

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: PET ah gog

Sentence: The reason Ann Noy talks with animals is that no people WANT to talk with her. She is a petagogue, spewing her dog-ma all the time. She talks until she's horse. People are too cowed by her obviously superior intelligence to ox her what she's talking about, and it's too difficult to ferret out the meaning. Everyone ducks when they see her coming, and they just want to bat her away. So she long ago gave up trying to figure out why people were so catty about her, and retreated, tortoiselike, to her cocoon to live out her days as an animal whisperer.

Etymology: pet + pedagogue (a person who teaches, instructs, or talks in a manner that is excessively dogmatic, shows off his or her learnedness or overemphasizes minor details)

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Hart-felt story...porpoiseful and not boaring! - Nosila, 2010-06-04: 23:55:00

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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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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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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: ark tik you late

Sentence: Fauna could arkticulate with any kind of animal on the planet. She had a rare gift that allowed her to speak and be understood by each creature in their native tongue. She could hawk-talk;yakity-yak;elephant-rant;utter-otter;giraffe-gaffe;fish-dish;talk turkey;rattler-tattler;shark-bark;rabbit-on;horse-discourse and goat-quote. She was fluent in flamingo-lingo & dingo-lingo;fox-talks & ox-talks;cat-chat & rat-chat;ram-jam & lamb-jam;seal-spiel & eel-spiel;hog-blog & dog-blog;lynx-thinks;gander-slander;worm-term;panda-memoranda and leech-speech. She could also speak legal-beagle;bird-word;spout-trout;jaw-macaw;slang-orangutang;fawn-phonetics;gibbons-gibber;rhino-rhetoric;ass-sass;bear-criticism and pelican-brief. She had a built-in critter transmitter. She knew American Swine language and was considered fly-lingual. Yes, Fauna deerly loved all creatures but one: people. They were the real beasts!

Etymology: ark (as in Noah's Ark, where there were 2 of every every kind of animal on Earth) & articulate (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way or put into words or an expression)

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Whoo hoo! Your sentence is laugh-out-loud funny. 'bear-criticism and pelican- brief.' Love it. how about knowing the worm terms and the ant rants? can't leave out the lesser among us, now, can we? - stache, 2008-03-28: 01:44:00

jeez-you amended before I could post my comment and beat me to one of 'em! - stache, 2008-03-28: 01:46:00

sorry, stache, as soon as I go to end it,I think of another. Make the animal voices stop! - Nosila, 2008-03-28: 01:50:00

funky-glibbon, gosshawk-gossip, cricket-critique, crow-crow, raven-on, - fun stuff, got my vote. - petaj, 2008-03-28: 07:40:00

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:26:00

Cheers, mates...After I signed off, they kept popping in my head: wombat-chat;moose-juice; and many other terns of phrases! - Nosila, 2008-03-28: 23:58:00

Missed this one completely:great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 20:40:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /zoo-MYOO-ni-keyt/

Sentence: Trudy always knew she wanted to work with animals, since they were the only ones who seemed to understand her. She would visit the zoo several times a week because she liked to think that she could zoommunicate with the animals there. When there were no other visitors around, she would speak out loud to them, explaining how insensitive and heartless other humans were. Trudy would make her rounds, spending time with different creatures and trying to avoid the crowds. At first the animals at the zoo seemed to show interest in her monologues, but most of them were used to her presence by now and she was beginning to sense their boredom with her. Trudy was going to have to look for another zoo soon — she might even have to move to another city — in order to find a group of animals who were ready for a long-term committment.

Etymology: Zoo - a park or facility where animals are kept (from Greek, zoion "an animal") + Communicate - to express thoughts, feelings, or information easily or effectively (from Latin, commūnicāre "to impart, make common")

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COMMENTS:

Looking at the word alone, I like it, so far. - stache, 2008-03-28: 01:23:00

I am sorry if I have unintentionally "stolen" or plagiarize your word. I have included an alternative verbotomy for today: "Assissiate" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 04:17:00

Oh no, did we post the same word at the same time, Bob? No worries. - Tigger, 2008-03-28: 11:54:00

I could just go with my 2nd choice, "Varminteract" (varmint + interact) as an alternate. - Tigger, 2008-03-28: 12:03:00

Nice sentence. I considered, 'animonologue,' but thought it too one-way. - stache, 2008-03-28: 12:48:00

Impossible for me not to vote for this one. "Great" minds, and all that stuff! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 23:41:00

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