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DEFINITION: n. A person who insults people for a living. v. To get paid to insult your customers.
Verboticisms
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Promiliater
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pro - MIL - ee - ait - er
Sentence: Hannah is a vicious promilitater, caring only for the 'bottom line' on her pay stub while cheerfully reducing those she targets to a blubbering shamed state.
Etymology: Blend of professional and humiliate(er)
Vulgaressional
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: "vulgar" like vulgar, "essional" like in professional.
Sentence: He was the highest ranking vulgaressional in business - they simply called him "The Vulgarator" (but friends called him simply jonobo).
Etymology: vulgar + professional = vulgaressional
Burninatrix
Created by: playdohheart
Pronunciation: bur-nin-a-trix
Sentence: I pay my burninatrix to follow me around and insult me and I pay another dude to walk around and say "Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrn" after every insult.
Etymology: Burn-insult; dominatrix-a woman paid to be the powerful one in a sexual relationship
Occupationalhazeard
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: occu/apy/shun/al/hyz/ard
Sentence: Joan was an occupationalhazeard and lived for the thrill she got from her endless put downs.
Etymology: occupational hazard + haze (humiliate, ridicule) + ardor (zeal)
Demeanager
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: deh mee na jur
Sentence: The demeanager headed up the inhuman resources department.
Etymology: manager demean
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COMMENTS:
good one - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-01: 09:14:00
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Defamician
Created by: emmyb2
Pronunciation: deh-fah-mission
Sentence: The defamician worked hard to ruin everyone's egos.
Etymology: defame + ician (one who does)
Donrickles
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: don/rik/ls
Sentence: Elaine heard there was an opening for a donrickles at her neighborhood Y. It was in the psychology department three nights a week. All she had to do was show up at the "Who Stole My Self-Esteem" meetings and pretty much be herself. She decided it was perfect for two reasons. One, it was part-time and her nights were free, and two, she always considered herself a "people person."
Etymology: Don Rickles: Became known as an insult comedian by learning to respond to hecklers.
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COMMENTS:
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-30: 19:52:00
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Contemptibubble
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: con/tempt/ee/bubble
Sentence: Frank lived in his own world of insult and opprobrium. He had become so efficient at being a contemptibubble that he could fire off single word salvos and drop a person at fifty paces.
Etymology: contempt (scornful of) + bubble (as in living in an enclosed world of your own)
Shrude
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sh rood
Sentence: Dawn Rickles was a shrude. Her shrudimentary income came from tossing insults to people who paid a lot to catch them. The more she insulted, the more she got paid. Of course, all this talent was natural for her. Growing up,her favourite novel was Dr.Heckle & Mr.Snide. Her boyfriend, Harry Ast, also had a favouritre novel, the Taming of the Shrude.
Etymology: Shrew (a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman) & Shrewd (marked by practical hardheaded intelligence) & Rude (socially incorrect in behavior;lacking civility or good manners)
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