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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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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)
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:
Puckster
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: puck-stir
Sentence: Jill was a puckster as she insulted people for a living as well as in her spare time.
Etymology: Either of the following: Puck from "The Real World" or a hockey puck from Don Rickels
Batecher
Created by: thefreewheeler
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The children winced when they learned their sub was that batecher Miss Thomson.
Etymology: French "bad teacher"
Insultant
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: in-sult-ant
Sentence: "I have spent many years honing my insulting skills, so your suggestion that I'm ripping you off is, well, it's an insult, an aspersion, an impertinence." And so ended another negotiation over the extortionate insultant fee. "And you smell like bag of rotten mussels", she yelled as she left the building. "Quite clearly she is excellent at her job, let's get her back next time."
Etymology: consultant + insult
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COMMENTS:
terrible, useless word. I'm giving you my vote even though you don't deserve it! - galwaywegian, 2007-04-23: 06:46:00
Obviously, galwaywegian works for a very large, very successful, and very expensive insulting firm. So begrudgingly, I will follow his lead and proffer my two cents to petaj. - wordmeister, 2007-04-23: 10:08:00
Thanks for the reprehensible comments. Is that the best you can do in the way of profijeering. And you call yourselves scornstars! Hmmph. - petaj, 2007-04-23: 18:45:00
I agree with galwaywegian. Your word is a boil on the verbotobutt, a verbotocyst. My vote was just pity points, don't take it too seriously. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-23: 19:23:00
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Outrageace
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: OUTRAGE+ACE
Sentence: The school for baseball umpires hired a full time outrageace to give their students practice taking insults.
Etymology: OUTRAGE+ACE
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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Indignatary
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: in-dig-nuh-tair-ee
Sentence: Sue is a professional indignatary, seizing every opportunity to publically insult people.
Etymology: indignant, dignitary
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COMMENTS:
Nice. Politely insulting. - wordmeister, 2007-04-23: 09:55:00
playful - emmyb2, 2007-04-23: 14:18:00
Excellent as usual. - ErWenn, 2007-04-24: 00:13:00
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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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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:
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