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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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Capinatrix
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: cap e nate tricks
Sentence: Bonnie was employed by several wealthy business men as a capinatrix, and she truly excelled at her job.
Etymology:
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
Customeffacer
Created by: heb319
Pronunciation: ku-stom-a-fa-ser
Sentence: The customeffacer ridiculed the client for being to cheap to buy a brand-name power tool with a 5-year warranty.
Etymology: from "customer" as well as "custom" since the customeffacer must create custom insults for individual situations. Also from the word efface, which obliterates all the joy the customer believed to have found in the "bargain."
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)
Dissender
Created by: Mrgoodtimes
Pronunciation: dih-sen-der
Sentence: Brad didn't actually do anything but unleash well timed zingers to his office mates on a daily basis, they would call him a dissender but he liked to think of it as morale maintenance.
Etymology: Diss - Sender, Dissenter
Rickletist
Created by: poogas
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I can really keep the one-liner put-downs flying given my talents as the world's foremost Rickletist; now if I could only figure out why people would pay hard-earned money to come to shows like that.
Etymology:
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
Rickleser
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: rick + uhlls + er
Sentence: I've made an excellent living as a rickleser, you stupid moron.
Etymology: see: Don Rickles
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