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DEFINITION: v. To ask someone who is clearly in a store uniform, perhaps on a ladder creating a display or running a cash register "Do you work here?" n. A person who doesn't know how to ask for assistance in a retail store without asking a stupid question.
Interrograte
Top verboticism of the day created by kateinkorea
Pronunciation: in TER ro GRATE
Sentence: As Emma would pose her redundant and asinine questions to wait-staff, store-clerks, and other service industry employees, it became clear she was posing in more ways than one. She would interrograte these poor unsuspecting workers with her snobvious questions to show her tiny bit of power over them. Then she would quickly send them off to answer to her whims. One day we sat at a restaurant table where there was a buzzer to bring the waiters. She had them come about ten times. “Is this water in this jug? Are these organic lemons? Is the coffee fresh? Freshly ground? What is that song playing on the radio right now? Does your boss also own the franchise across town?” She just wouldn’t stop.
Etymology: INTERROGATE: GRATE: to get on someones nerve; irritate
Created by: kateinkorea.
Comments:
like it kate - galwaywegian, 2009-03-27: 10:45:00
It's a grate word! - Nosila, 2009-03-27: 13:10:00
Great blending! Clever! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-28: 15:30:00
More Top Verboticisms:
(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Staffinvection: /staff in vek shun/ When George the patient asked the man in the hospital with the white scrubs; the stethoscope, mask and chart whether he worked there as he took George's vitals, he got himself a case of staffinvection. Etymology: Staff (employee) & Invection (. An expression which inveighs or rails against a person) & Wordplay on Staph Infection (A spherical gram-positive parasitic bacterium of the genus Staphylococcus, usually occurring in grapelike clusters and causing boils, septicemia, and other infections). Created by: Nosila.
Assking: /ass king/ On his shoulder, the huge brassy button said in big letters: assistant manager. Therefore, everyone was asstounded and asstonished to hear Stu Pid, assking, "Do you work here?" Etymology: ASS, KING, ASKING. Asking redumbdant (redundant) questions makes one an assking. ASS - offensive term that deliberately insults somebody's intelligence. KING - the greatest and most powerful leader of a people who are united by a common tie, in this case, by their level of intelligence. ASKING - to question. Created by: silveryaspen.
Comments:
Very funny! And very good! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-27: 04:18:00
Well there's an Ass----,Klutz---- and a Moron---- for today...we're all in the same mood :) Good one there! - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-27: 05:36:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-27: 12:24:00
I know Stu....worked with him....tried to avoid him...couldnt. - Mustang, 2009-03-28: 03:32:00
Inquisidolt: /in-QUIS-i-dolt/ Just got this one in "under the wire"...(electrified cattle fence)...I don't really know if this is "appropriate", but i TRUST all you crazy Verbotomists not to judge me too harshly... PAMBO wore his best "hoodie" while out shopping, and when he spotted the slinky young lady sporting a semi-commercial looking outer garb reminiscent of his favorite Progressive Insurance Representative (Stephanie Courtney), PAMBO cast all caution to the wind and asked her if she could get him a discount. PAMBO was rejected like a transplanted baboon heart, but it didn't cramp his style, because he was a dyed-in-the-wool INQUISIDOLT! Etymology: One who makes obviously redundant inquiries....INQUISITION: a severe questioning;Middle English inquisicioun, from Anglo-French inquisition, from Latin inquisition-, inquisitio, from inquirere .....DOLT: a stupid person; probably akin to Old English dol foolish 1553.... Created by: metrohumanx.
Comments:
Where can i get a fish license? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-28: 00:19:00
Excellent....Pambo was master of the duhblivious... - Mustang, 2009-03-28: 03:29:00
Maybe you can get a fish license at the office of the justice of the deeps. - silveryaspen, 2009-03-28: 15:17:00
Great job of using James' cartoon for the basis for your sentence. Pambo is lucky he's not facing a sentence for his inquisidolt! You put a fresh spin on an old thing and got a big grin! As the old man in the old tv show Laugh In used to say "very interrrresting!" - silveryaspen, 2009-03-28: 15:29:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by ladyiggy. Thank you ladyiggy. ~ James
ladyiggy - 2009-03-27: 09:46:00
You are very welcomed. Great words. It's hard to pick.
kateinkorea - 2009-03-28: 10:16:00
Good word!
Thank you! And really, it is hard to be polite to retail staffers without being stupid. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by ladyiggy. Thank you ladyiggy. ~ James
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