Verboticisms

Created by: readerwriter

Pronunciation: do-ger-rol

Sentence: There once was a man named Stover/ Who had a dog named Rover/ Well, two...the other named Stew/ (What else is new?)... When he took them to the park for a walk/ Those pooches would bark and balk/ And Stover would doggeroll over and over/ In clover/ That guy named Stover.

Etymology: A play on DOGGEREL meaning loose or irregular verse, especially of an inferior nature and DOG + ROLL meaning to move on a surface by turning over and over

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COMMENTS:

Excellent word play. - Mustang, 2009-02-03: 07:16:00

so clever to create a limerick to go with your doggeroll! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-03: 08:40:00

Thanks. Except I forgot to use the word in the sentence/poem. Will try to correct. - readerwriter, 2009-02-03: 09:52:00

terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-03: 11:04:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: pet /angled

Sentence: Laura's German short-hair pointer is nearly as large as she is and she easily and often gets completely petangled while out for walks with the massive animal and has to do numerous twists and turns and dances to free herself from the lease.

Etymology: PETANGLED - verb - from PET + TANGLED (snarled, interlaced, or mixed up)

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: PE tri FRIDE

Sentence: After being wrapped up in dog leash I was pretty much petrifried. I couldn't move, couldn't get the dogs to settle down and I was ready to cry.

Etymology: PET: a beloved animal PETRIFIED: something that is dead, unable to move FRIED: slang for frazzled

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: muz zel tuff

Sentence: When Abe walked his two frisky dogs each day, he had great difficulty in controlling their behavior. You could even say it was muzzletough for him to keep them in line.

Etymology: Muzzle(restraint device to keep a dog from biting) & Tough (hard to do) & Wordplay on Mazel Tov (Hebrew words for Good Luck)

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: BAZ-n-JIG

Sentence: Bob quickly realized that the jig was up when, on the very first day of obedience training school, his new puppy bazenjigged him from go to whoa.

Etymology: blending of BASENJI: A breed of hunting dog that originated in central Africa, basenjis have the reputation of being very difficult to obedience-train. Veronica Anne Starbuck's 2000 novel Heart of the Savannah features a basenji named Savannah. & JIG: to move with a quick, jerky motion; hop; bob "From go to whoa" a 1970s australianism: "from start to finish." "Whoa" pronounced woe.

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COMMENTS:

Great etymology. Laughed to think of how this can also infer a type of dancing with your dog! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-03: 08:43:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: TETH-ehr-bound

Sentence: Lester was a slight man who was not endowed with superior strength yet he insisted on taking all three of his labs for exercise at the same time and invariably found himself tetherbound when they would become frisky and wrap their leashes around his legs with their hyperactive activities.

Etymology: Blend of 'tether' (a rope, chain, or the like, by which an animal is fastened to a fixed object so as to limit its range of movement) and 'bound' (made fast as if by a band or bond)

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COMMENTS:

nice word - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-03: 11:03:00

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Created by: GlobalGallery

Pronunciation: ow-meega-low-may-nee-ack

Sentence: "Their father won Best in Show at Crufts", said Carter with an air of arrogance. He pulled firmly on their leads but his treasured hounds ignored him and continued to sniff the Labrador's butt. Carter's overblown ego made him think he was top dog, but really he was just an omegalomaniac. The dogs ignored him unless he was at the grill cooking, sausages for himself, and rib-eye steaks for them.

Etymology: 1. omega - the last letter of the Greek alphabet. (as opposed to alpha male/dog which is the first). 2. megalomaniac - a pathalogical egoist.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: muz zel toff

Sentence: Dogless was a Muzzletoff. He had been born of a wealthy family and was educated in the finest boarding schools. Th only trouble he had was convincing his folks that he could be the best dogwalker on the Planet. They were horrified at a boy of his breeding doing a doggy round up and having asteer home contest every month. He had tough skin and it let him be carried away. Guys like Dogless, they deserved to be lonely and tied up in their work.

Etymology: Play on Mazel Tov (Good Fortune in Hebrew) & Muzzle (a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting) & Toff (an elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners)

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COMMENTS:

Hehe! Good one. - GlobalGallery, 2009-02-03: 08:18:00

Your ending, last line, is ever so fine. Super create that can apply to both dog and man! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-03: 08:56:00

This is hilarious!! - mweinmann, 2009-02-03: 09:51:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: how nd bow nd

Sentence: He was so tired of being hound bound that he got rid of the dogs and bought some chickens which he had hoped would be free range, but as they got lost too often he eventually put them on leads. it wasn't long before he became henmeshed.

Etymology: bound, bound

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love henmeshed - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-03: 11:02:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: lēdərhōzng

Sentence: When they go for a walk Ralph's dogs like to go wherever they want without regard for what happens with their leashes. A couple quick laps around his leg can leave him with a thorough leaderhosing.

Etymology: leader (leash) + hosing (defeat)

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