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DEFINITION: n. Embarrassing pet behavior; may be perfectly natural for the pet, but often makes humans feel self-conscious or ill at ease. v. To be embarrassed by your pet's beahviour
Verboticisms
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Birdition
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: burd/i/shun
Sentence: I always feel like I'm in birdition when I visit Jill's house. She has canarys that fly free and deposit loads of bird crap and feathers on me.
Etymology: bird + perdition (anguish, nether world)
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COMMENTS:
It's brave soul who walks the road to birdition. Take a raincoat. - petaj, 2007-04-27: 21:02:00
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Petpesterous
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: pet-pess-ter-us
Sentence: lilly was shite on one side of her usually overly made up face after snuffles petpesterous behaviour. Snuffles was realising that Maybellines beige fantasy number five was much tastier that Aunty May's Ivory dust, by yardley
Etymology: pet- domestic animal pest - a living thing that irritates, annoys or damages us- pronoun, first person plural
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COMMENTS:
I meant white not shite, though it does still retain meaning. freudian slip maybe, anyway i didn't mean to be rude. Sorry. - suzanne, 2007-04-27: 10:48:00
My dog is guilty of shite, a.k.a., An Inconvenient Poop that occurs in the neighbor's yard, in front of the neighbor, which inspired this definition. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-27: 11:05:00
How about adding preposterous to your etymology? - petaj, 2007-04-27: 21:04:00
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Immoranimalistic
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: "immora" like in immoral, "animal" like in animal, "istic" like in minimalistic.
Sentence: You've got such an immoranimalistic dog.
Etymology: immoral + animal + adjectifiction = immoranimalistic.
Petrifido
Created by: sabbychankicksass
Pronunciation: pet/tra/fido
Sentence: When the neighbor's dog begins to engage in "petrifido" all over my face , I think to myself I will have to wash my face when I get home...
Etymology: the words pet, petrified and fido combined to make one word
Creaturediscomfort
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Cree-chur-diss-cumf-ort
Sentence: When Linda invited Jane round for coffee at her flat she accepted reluctantly. Remembering last time she went round there, when her dog, Poochiepie, decided to lick parts of himself she never thought he could reach, then promptly jumped up on her lap in an effort to lick her face. Luckily she swerved just in time to avoid the horrorifying situation. She never wanted to feel that sense of creaturediscomfort again. At least this time she will be ready for anything!
Etymology: Creature (a living being, in particular an animal as distinct from a person.) from Latin Creare 'produce' + Discomfort ( Slight anxiety or embarrassment.) = Creaturediscomfort
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COMMENTS:
Great etymology. Good word.
FIDO says he never met POOCHIEPIE and was incarcerated at the time of the incident. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-04: 08:11:00
I guess that explains why our cat has such bad breath - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-04: 10:41:00
Great word...my brother-in-law reckons dogs their privates after they lick humans to get the taste out of their mouths! - Nosila, 2008-07-05: 00:18:00
oops "dogs lick their privates" - Nosila, 2008-07-05: 00:19:00
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Geneticat
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: jen-et-ee-cat
Sentence: Miss Smythe was rather embarrased when Felix spayed the furniture in front of her guests. But she accepted that it was part of her puss's geneticat.
Etymology: genetic (influenced by genes) + cat (a domesticated feline) + etiquette (a code for social behaviour)
Domestichated
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: dumb est ikk hay tid
Sentence: His version of domesticated was more like domestichated in her opinion, she thought as the great hound nuzzled into her crotch with such force as to spill her martini, but if his wallet is anything like the size of his dog, it might be worth persevering.
Etymology: domesticated, hated
Petiquette
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pet/i/ket
Sentence: It was a pet peeve of Sue's that every time she encountered Mark and his dog the petiquette involved substantial sniffing and licking
Etymology: etiquette + pet
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COMMENTS:
Even at the risk of you overtaking the lead I had to vote for this one. Excellent word. - petaj, 2007-04-27: 06:42:00
This one's very clever, nice job! - ziggy41, 2007-04-27: 06:51:00
Love it Jabber! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-27: 07:54:00
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Fidauxpas
Created by: thewbert
Pronunciation: f'Idoʊˈpɑː(z)
Sentence: When my dog interrupted our conversation by trying to hump her leg, we both fell into awkward silence at the fidauxpas.
Etymology: From fido and faux pas
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James
Yes the rumors are true. This week we are offering the The Verbotomy Cup as prize for the top player of the week. See details on the Verbotomy Blog ~ James
Jabberwocky - 2007-04-27: 12:54:00
Hi Verbotomy, Those cups (mugs)are really great. Would it be possible for any of us to purchase ones even if we don't win?
Hi Jabberwocky, Glad you like the Verbotomy Cup! It is our wampeter, and as such I don't think we would sell it, because that might turn it into a MacGuffin. ~ James
Is it our waxing or waning wampeter? What's the other one (since a karass always has exactly two wampeters)?
I believe it is still waxing. And think that Dan Pink's right brain is the other wampeter. ~ James
mana1066 - 2007-05-06: 23:04:00
some of that went right over my head. whine! i want a cup too!
Quit a tail from the punster extrordinaire! Poor FIDO is the Lee Harvey Oswald of doggie misbehavior.
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James