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Beastfeasting
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: beast-feast-ing
Sentence: Jennifer liked beastfeasting with her golden retrievers, especially when they had just caught a juicy squirrel.
Etymology: beast + feast
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COMMENTS:
This cartoon really cracks me up... that is _exactly_ the face my cat makes when I get anywhere near to its food when it eats... like it is seriously pondering whether to munch you too. - babel, 2006-12-06: 04:41:00
Great! Thanks! - Verbotomy, 2006-12-08: 03:38:00
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Seniorate
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: SEEN-your-ate
Sentence: Down on his luck, Jim seniorated Purina.
Etymology: senior (stereotypical poor folk) + deteriorate
Anifoodgest
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: 'a-n&-'füd -'jest
Sentence: After living with him for a week I discovered he was an anifoodgest.
Etymology: ANIMAL - Latin, from animale, neuter of animalis animate, from anima soul FOOD - Middle English fode, from Old English fOda; akin to Old High German fuotar food, fodder, Latin panis bread, pascere to feed INGEST - Latin ingestus, past participle of i
Dogdish
Created by: Coolfool
Pronunciation: DOG + DISH
Sentence: That fat cat and I dogdished those tukey bones until there wasn't enough left to make a turkey sandwich.
Etymology: Dog, to denote another species, and a common pet, and dished to denote what action was being undertaken. Quick, easy & you know immediately what it is describing. I may begin using it.
Animalnutrition
Created by: dkrider
Pronunciation:
Sentence: John suffered from animalnutrition after a steady diet of kibble for the past three months.
Etymology: animal + malnutrition
Kibblenibbler
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: kibble nibbler
Sentence: my neice is a kibblenibbler, at 10 months old she crawled to the cat food tray and ate the cat biscuits.
Etymology: to nibble on kibble.
Honeylunch
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: hun-ee-lun-ch
Sentence: I shared a honeylunch with tiddles
Etymology: honey (term of endearment) lunch (meal)
Comments:
wordmeister - 2006-12-06: 09:32:00
Hey Babel and Kevcom, You guys are so funny! Very clever!
thanks to babel for inspiring mine (i actually read yours that way when i first saw it)
babel - 2006-12-06: 17:45:00
hehe you're welcome :)