Verboticisms

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Hang-dog-gon

Sentence: Felicity never failed to notice the hangdoggone look her pets would give her when she'd return from a night out or even a shopping trip, and her pooch Hector was the most baleful of her menagerie.

Etymology: Blend of 'hangdog' (shamefaced; guilty), 'doggone' (damned; confounded),

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Created by: vixphilia

Pronunciation: Gulk.

Sentence: v.: Fido couldn't stop gulking at me when I arrived from my vacation. n.: My mom gives me her full-on gulk whenever I forget calling.

Etymology: Gulk: Guilt + Sulk

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Created by: eileen22

Pronunciation: mow-pang

Sentence: The cat mopanged me on my way out the door this morning.

Etymology: mope (to sulk) pang (it pulled my heartstrings)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: gil trip

Sentence: When Daisy gets home from work each night, her goldfish, Smelt Gibson, always gives her the gilltrip look. You know, that pethetic longing to make her feel bad about him being alone so much. If he could, he'd show her that warning from the Sturgeon General that warns that neglected pet fish can become hard of herring...

Etymology: Gill (respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water) & Guilt Trip (remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offence)

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COMMENTS:

on the nose!!! - DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-22: 01:54:00

and those fish-tales from the ocean !!:) - DrWebsterIII, 2012-11-22: 01:56:00

Dear DrWebsterIII: I do it just for the halibut...otherwise what's the porpoise? P.S. Love your comments to all...very supportive and if I may be koi, you are a kindly sole... - Nosila, 2012-11-22: 22:16:00

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Gloo-mide

Sentence: Sarah's cat, Mr. Huxley, glanced up at her all gloomeyed, walked casually over to the litter box, and began to fling the contents aimlessly about the room in an attempt to convey his displeasure with being left in the apartment for a week with nothing but a catnip ball and NPR radio programming.

Etymology: Gloomy: when the sun never shines, eyed: possessing two organic visual sensors located about the face.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: stay r tling

Sentence: The eye contact she found staretling

Etymology: startling, stare

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Hang-dog-gon-it

Sentence: Amber always had that remorseful sense of hangdoggoneit when she'd see the baleful look in the eyes of her pets when she'd return home from various outings.

Etymology: Blend of 'hangdog' (shamefaced; guilty), 'doggone' (damned; confounded), and it

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Created by: thebaron

Pronunciation:

Sentence: My cat gave me a sullen pathopout when I walked in after the long weekend.

Etymology:

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Created by: Kevcom

Pronunciation: gla-wer-garghd

Sentence: Old Jessie gave me a glowergard late last night after I forgot to change his water. Poor Jessie, he can't even try to be independent...

Etymology: glower + regard

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Created by: emilylind

Pronunciation: lowguiltify is pnownced 'low' ad then the word 'guilt' and then 'fy'.

Sentence: My pet decided to lowguiltify he for making her feel neeglected .

Etymology:

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