Verboticisms

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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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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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: farm - vur - say - shun

Sentence: Lucy had an inability to talk to humans but could always be found in farmversation with the horses, ducks, cows or goats. Somehow she felt at ease and understood by the animals.

Etymology: farm, conversation

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COMMENTS:

Farma Supra! - Nosila, 2009-05-18: 13:19:00

Prolly has a tough time deciding which pet to eat at Thanksgiving. - Mustang, 2009-05-18: 19:23:00

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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: 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)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: a/see/see/ate

Sentence: Jonathan was in sync with all varities of animals and able to assisiate with them at will.

Etymology: St Frances of Assisi (who could communicate with animals) + associate

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COMMENTS:

nice twist - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:08:00

I hadn't a clue until I read your etymology. Very nice. - stache, 2008-03-28: 12:41:00

Hard for me not to vote for this one. Great minds, and all that stuff! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 23:36:00

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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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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: kom-AN-eh-kayt

Sentence: Meredith seems to have a natural rapport with all kinds of critters and is even able to commanicate with them directly.

Etymology: Blend of 'communicate' (the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information) and 'animal' (major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa).

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: E.S.P.-mam-ah-lize-er

Sentence: Whenever Gertrude wanted, she could turn on her Espmamallizer and talk to any animal. She somehow knew when they were quacking up!

Etymology: E.S.P- Communication or perception by means other than the physical senses. [e(xtra)s(ensory) p(erception).] Mamal-(I removed one M for Mammal):Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia. Mamallizer: A person that can instictively talk to animals of all types...even the spineless :)

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Created by: 1245678

Pronunciation: giv-en-up-on-hue-man-is-um

Sentence: if you cant communicate with other fellow human beings you suffer with givenuponhumanism.

Etymology:

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