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DEFINITION: n. A person who insults people for a living. v. To get paid to insult your customers.
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Scofficer
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /SKOF-uh-ser/
Sentence: Mr. C. really only had one true talent — making scathing comments and delivering insults that could bring many people to tears. Fortunately, he had a job where he could do exactly that, a real mockupation. His job as a scofficer was to ridicule other people's talents, (or lack of talents). To the latest singing contestant he said, "If you had lived 2,000 years ago and sung like that, they would have stoned you." Then, as expected, Paula slapped his right arm and began to scold him, while Randy just shook his head and tried not to laugh, saying "Yo dog, that was cold, Simon."
Etymology: Scoff - to speak derisively; mock; jeer (from Old Norse, skaup "mockery") + Officer - a person who holds a position of rank or authority in an organization (from Latin, officium "service, duty")
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COMMENTS:
Great word...love the American Idol reference...yes, Mr.C. can be scoffensive, but that's why we love him! - Nosila, 2008-07-01: 02:27:00
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Abusedriver
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: a/boos/dry/vur
Sentence: This morning there was a subway shut down so I had to take the bus and listen to abusedriver hurl insults at every unsuspecting passenger who tried to exit by the front doors
Etymology: bus driver + abuse
Swearmaster
Created by: Goldentongue
Pronunciation: zuermaster
Sentence: This company really needs an efficient swearmaster, it's employees are far too happy. Susan is an accomplished swearmaster, she can type 400 insults per minute
Etymology: Swear as in insult, Master as in someone who has a highly developed skill.
Insultant
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: inn sull tannnt
Sentence: She was an insultant and she loved her mockupation
Etymology: consultant, insult
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COMMENTS:
Excellent word! I wanted to use this one! - splendiction, 2009-11-09: 15:30:00
Just the word I would have thought of if I had thought of it. - artr, 2009-11-09: 17:15:00
Great word...wonder what they pay for a job like that???? - Nosila, 2009-11-09: 21:50:00
perfect word....great gig, if you can get it! - mweinmann, 2009-11-11: 11:13:00
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Chideandseek
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: chīdandsēk
Sentence: After the hazard warning by Consumer Reports the job of the Customer Disservice Representatives is to do their best to shift the blame for problems back on to customers. With a technique they call chideandseek, they admonish callers for not following the overly-complicated owners manual that includes such sage wisdom as using safety goggles and chain-mail gloves when using any sharp product. If guilt does*t work, the trump card is to suggest that they are passing the call to a supervisor. Of course, all this does is put them back into the maze of a phone tree system.
Etymology: chide (scold or rebuke) + hide-and-seek (a children*s game in which one player tries to find other players who have hidden themselves)
Mockyoupation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: mock-you-pa-tion
Sentence: Mary found an ideal mockyoupation in the medical field as an occupational therapist. She practiced stand up comedy while working with her patients to cheer them up and found that the laughter helped them heal faster. Thus she became known far and wide as an expert in the field of mockyoupational therapy -- the art of adding insult to injury.
Etymology: mock: to insult, tease or ridicule + occupation: line of work, vocation
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COMMENTS:
Like it! - artr, 2009-11-09: 06:47:00
A sense of the mockabre...I like it! - Nosila, 2009-11-09: 21:52:00
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Proheckler
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: prO-heck-ler
Sentence: David had a unique job. He is a proheckler, getting paid to go out to clubs heckling anyone that dares go on stage.
Etymology: professional/heckler
Rickler
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: RICK-LUHR (rickled)
Sentence: Forget the banker and the TV sales maven… They’re not so clever- just clumsy and craven. Worse than a sort of a mental french tickler- Is an insult received from a really sick RICKLER
Etymology: The master: Don Rickles. A stand-up and club comic for over 60 years, Rickles all but invented insult comedy.
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COMMENTS:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/ - metrohumanx, 2009-11-09: 02:23:00
You rickled my funny bone... - Nosila, 2009-11-09: 21:53:00
You are COMPOSED of funny bones, Kiddo! - metrohumanx, 2009-11-10: 04:57:00
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Crudapation
Created by: mana1066
Pronunciation: krood-ne-pay-shun
Sentence: Mistress devlyn replied,"it's just a crudapation" when asked what she did for a living
Etymology: crude+occupation
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by an anonymous donor. Thank you for sharing! ~ James
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That gentleman bears a striking resemblance to Bruce McCulloch.
I hope Mr. McCulloch isn't insulted... ~ James
ErWenn - 2007-04-23: 18:17:00
I've often noticed that the verbotoons have striking similarities to famous people. I wonder if the artist uses reference photos...
As Kurt Vonnegut said of his novels, this artwork is fiction and "All persons living or dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed." Except of course, for the drawing of Vonnegut himself, which is meant to be who it appears to be. ~ James
ErWenn - 2007-04-24: 00:11:00
Everybody's coincidental? All 12 billion of us? I like the sound of that. And I definitely agree that you shouldn't construe anybody. It's just not nice, even if they are already dead.
Yes, it's just a bunch of moments which may, or may not be connected... ~ James
Clayton - 2007-05-13: 02:34:00
Invectivator
CONGRATS! INSULTANT is simple yet effective. I wish i could learn not to use a large word when a diminutive one will do. Economy is everything.
Today's definition was suggested by wordmeister. Thank you wordmeister. ~ James