Verboticism: Therapalaver
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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Fartalite
Created by: connor
Pronunciation: far-ta-lite
Sentence: This doctor fartalites while working on my mouth.
Etymology:
Qandaches
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kew and ayks
Sentence: Dr. Yvonne is one multi-tasking dentist. She can mask up, get both fists in your mouth simultaneously, probe and scrape and poke and pull and all the while, ask what you thought about medical/political/societal and philosophical issues, while giving you the benefit of her own thoughts on each topic and understanding your feeble, numb, unintelligible answers. At the same time, she gives verbal notes to her dental assistant for your file, as she tells her what she needs next and calculates your bill and how much your insurance will pay for each treatment. Yes, she has QandAches down to a fine science. No wonder they call her Leader of the Plaque!
Etymology: Q and A (Questions and Answers)& Aches (a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain; be the source of pain;feel physical pain)
Dentachatter
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dentachatər
Sentence: To avoid the dentachatter Ron would sometimes pretend to doze off. Even when he flinched the dentist allowed him to continue the ruse.
Etymology: dental (of or relating to the teeth) + chatter (talk rapidly or incessantly about trivial matters)
Blahnaesthesia
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: blah nast eee zya
Sentence: The blahnaesthesia ended up being more painful than the filling.
Etymology: anaesthesia, blah
Nitrousyakside
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: nye-truhs-YAK-syed
Sentence: Little did the dentist know that Alex could counter her nitrousyakside by talking even longer and more boringly than she.
Etymology: nitrous oxide (administered at the beginning of dental work to ease pain) + yak + bedside manner
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)
Jabberflossy
Created by: wordslikevenom
Pronunciation: Jab-ber-floss-ee
Sentence: The dental nurse yanked the tape from the spool and pulling it taut, sliced down into Dick's incisors, grinning as she sawed to-and-fro. He could taste the blood from his gums running down into the back of his mouth. "One, two! One, two! And through and through the vorpal floss went snicker-snack! She left him dead, and with his head she went galumphing back". As the jabberflossy flowed so did the puddle beneath Dick's seat ...
Etymology: Jabber - To talk rapidly, unintelligibly, or idly. Floss - dental floss
Jabbertalky
Created by: TheFlawlessWord
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "Beware the Jabbertalk, my twit! The hose that sucks, the drills that buzz! Beware the dental bird, and spit The voluminous cottonmouth fuzz!"
Etymology: Apologies to Lewis Carroll
Afflictscussion
Created by: amandaprater
Pronunciation: uh-flixs-cuss-shun
Sentence: As the dentist poked around in the patients mouth, he asked the patient about his family. The afflictscussion was obvious as he tried to answer.
Etymology:
Awkwords
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: awk-werds
Sentence: Jim is not a fan of dental appointments, not because of a concern for pain or the loss of productive time. What he hates is the awkwords that fill the room as the procedures progress. It's difficult, at best, to carry on a conversation with fingers, water spray and other tools in your mouth.
Etymology: awkward (lacking social graces or manners) + words (speech or talk)