Verboticism: Docquisition
DEFINITION: n., Forced small talk used by professional caregivers to put patients at ease. (Not usually effective.) v., To ask insipid questions while subjecting a person to an intimate, awkward or painful procedure.
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Jabwitter
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Jabb-wit-er
Sentence: Dr B. Kindly always resorted to the tried and tested method of jabwitter to put his patients at ease while injecting them. He would ask them trivial questions, such as, where they were going for their holiday or what they intended to have for lunch to distract their attention away from the pain. After twenty years in the profession he found this was the best tactic to use on most people.
Etymology: Jab(a hypodermic injection) + Witter(to speak about trivial matters) = Jabwitter
Mandrivel
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: man/dri/vel
Sentence:
Etymology: mandible (jaw bone) + drivel
Chatation
Created by: Juny1
Pronunciation: chat-eh-tion
Sentence: The doctor enjoyed the chatation, being done to the paitent
Etymology:
Yaplacate
Created by: Kevcom
Pronunciation: Yeah-plaa-kate
Sentence: Mr. Smith, the family doctor of the Joneses, often yaplicated to his patients so that he could carry on in his torturous dentistry operations without recieving yelps and complaints from his patients.
Etymology: yap (talk), placate (sooth)
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COMMENTS:
Says it all! - FayeWord, 2007-10-17: 17:47:00
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Chatquilizer
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: chat-kwil-eye-zer
Sentence: she had become quite adept at chatquilizing her patients
Etymology: chat, tranquilizer
Raahhrahhllll
Created by: beardo
Pronunciation: Rah rah l
Sentence: As an answer to the dentists question of how his summer was, Steve replied "Raahhrahhllll."
Etymology: Ra-Cant ahh-now rahh-answer llll-idiot
Wompachat
Created by: danny
Pronunciation: wom-pa-chat
Sentence: The wompachat eased the dental patient.
Etymology: chat- a conversion
Communicache
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kom myun i kayke
Sentence: Every time Eddy went to see his Dentist, Dr.Iva Payne, he had to endure their usual communicache exchange. She would communicate with him inane questions about the weather, politics and his family and he would endure the ache. He honestly did not know how she understood him, but after years of doing this, she could understand the answers of her victims, er patients.
Etymology: Communicate (transmit thoughts or feelings or information) & Ache (pain)
Faqsdicine
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /fæksdsin/
Sentence: While she was attending him, she engaged in a little faqsdicine to relax him a bit.
Etymology: FAQSDICINE. From FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) + Medicine (the science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease)
