Verboticisms

Created by: elemon

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Sentence: Gladys liked Martin well enough, but the furidiom with his hamsters was starting to bug her.

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Created by: debgibson

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Sentence: He cringed at the petalect in evidence around the veterinarian's waiting room.

Etymology: pet plus dialect

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Created by: carpefactum

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Sentence: Whenever Muffy talked to her cat, it always seemed like a long dramaticpaws.

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Created by: Wordotwist

Pronunciation: Pet o lish

Sentence: When I first came to the US,I found it far easier to understand the petolish people used to speak to their pets,then the English they spoke to me.

Etymology: A combination of pet and lish as in English,Spanish,yidish etc.Joined by the o sound commonly used by owners in words addressed to pets.

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Created by: judyb

Pronunciation: shugg a dee

Sentence: Shuggadee ! You look great !

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Created by: Borogove

Pronunciation: ling-wa-pe-ta

Sentence: Her linguapeta differed when she approached the ugly pug.

Etymology: From 'lingua', latin for language and pet

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: Fer-nack-yoo-ler

Sentence: It takes hard working and determination, almost 7 years in college, and 4 years of trade school to learn the furnacular of pets.

Etymology: Fur (the hair of certain animals) + vernacular (language spoken in a specific place)

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COMMENTS:

how did I miss this one? great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-08: 12:50:00

Extra-good. I should've waited to vote. Seems like this definition spawned an unusually remarkable set of words. - Clayton, 2007-06-08: 13:13:00

I agree. Very good! - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-08: 14:00:00

Thanks all! There were many good words for this definition. - ziggy41, 2007-06-09: 22:18:00

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Created by: iago150

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Sentence: I wish she weren't so furbose with her animals. His constant furbosity with Lassie drove his girlfriend crazy.

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Created by: XLilDevilGirlX

Pronunciation: oo ge woo ge woo

Sentence: aren't u a oogywoogywoo. yer u r. yer u r.

Etymology: ok i'm not gonna lie (coz i can't think of 1 to say @ this moment in time) i totally made up oogywoogywoo so it doesn't have a meaning.Which makes it even better coz then u can think of 1 urself so let ur imagintion run wild.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: CRIT - ehr - speek

Sentence: Clarissa had an emotional bond with her pets that bordered on derangement and had even gone so far as to develop an entire vocabulary of critterspeak that she sometimes absent mindedly used when conversing with people.

Etymology: Blend of 'critter' (any creature) and 'speak'.

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COMMENTS:

BORDERED on derangement? Methinks she was Home, Home on deranged.... - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 06:46:00

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