Verboticism: Confaunabulation
DEFINITION: n. A person who has the highly developed ability to communicate on a direct level with any type of animal, except for human beings. v. To talk to animals because you know that communicating with people is useless.
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Verbetrate
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: Ver-beh-trait
Sentence: As a self-absorbed bipedal anthropoid vertebrate Jenny found herself often unable to communicate effectively with others of her kind, largely due to her grandiose verbosity, vective and vacillation. She was thus a verbetrate and spent most of her time quakkety-yakking (but ducks were not such good listeners), gibbon-gabbing, and slither-blathering.
Etymology: Verb: doing word, such as 'speaking'; Vertebrate: animals with backbones, such as mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians, but not politicians. This group is obviously so big that the few members who are actually human are neglible. I note this word is often misspelled as 'verbetrate' by an interposition of the "b" and the "t", hence found as such in google. Betray: turn to the 'other' side, ie. talk to the animals rather than humans.. Also Verberage and of course Verbotomy.
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COMMENTS:
That's telling them! - metrohumanx, 2009-05-18: 02:15:00
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Featherbrain
Created by: theCountess
Pronunciation: feather-brain
Sentence: Boring old definition of featherbrain: an emptyheaded person Verboticized new definition of featherbrain: an emptyheaded person who uses only fowl language
Etymology: Featherhead: noun, Old English; to have feathers for brains
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COMMENTS:
It must be fowl play.. or maybe vowel play :P - dochanne, 2009-05-18: 03:19:00
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Aniverbositous
Created by: ziggy
Pronunciation: an-i-ver-bos-it-ous
Sentence: Melissa was the most Aniverbositous soul I'd ever happened upon. She would go shopping and refuse to speak to the salesperson unless it was through a pidgeon, she called it using pidgeon English.
Etymology: Ani: derived from animal, verb: from verbal:having plenty to say! Bositous cos it sounds like bossy toes!!
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COMMENTS:
pidgeon english. heh. - stache, 2008-03-30: 20:44:00
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Linguafreakout
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: lihng-gwa-freek-owt
Sentence: Her parents thought it might have begun with that cute little sock monkey she was given on her first birthday. But, as her world expanded to include a pet dog, generations of hamsters, three cats, birds of many colors and sizes, endless trips to many zoos across the country, horses and a private stable at twelve, the llamas and alpacas, that safari in her twenties followed by an attempt at veterinary school, the cycles between her linguafreakouts were becoming closer and closer.
Etymology: From LINGUA FRANCA, meaning language used by persons who speak different languages + FREAK OUT, slang, meaning to make or become highly agitated
Verteprate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: virt ta prayt
Sentence: Helen could communicate with all animals. Her ability to verteprate came at an early age and served her well to interrogate the pets of crime victims, perepetrators and witnesses, as a special service to the police. It was amazing what we do and say in front of our pets because we think they won't talk. But Helen could get pets to verify alibis, deny stories and defeat many a criminal in his illegal ways. Pets told no lies nor harboured any ulterior motives for their statements. Helen only wished her gift worked on her 13 year old son, but alas that is not the way life goes!
Etymology: Vertebrate (animal having a having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium) & Prate ( idle or foolish and irrelevant talk; speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
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COMMENTS:
Eggzellunt!! Furshur. - Mustang, 2009-05-18: 07:54:00
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Confido
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: kun-FI-doh
Sentence: Poor purpleartichokes. Having had only 4 hours sleep the night before, nobody could understand the malformed sentences and willy-nilly thoughts she tried to convey. She couldn't wait to go home and confido with Ernie. He always understood her.
Etymology: confide, fido My word is already found by verboogle, however, it is an herbal medicine for male ...er... problems.
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COMMENTS:
bark bark purple - yap yap ruff ruff ruff? (please respond with an appropriate response) - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:22:00
YAAAWWWWWNN!! Grrrrrrrumph. Lick, lick, zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-28: 11:59:00
What a funny, fun word. - stache, 2008-03-28: 12:44:00
Purple..love your word! Sounds like an Irish drinking song refrain: Confido diddle-ee-ido-daiday! But I guess we should consider your word in Ernest...! Cheers - Nosila, 2008-03-28: 23:03:00
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Varminister
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: var-min-ist-er
Sentence: Having lost the backing of the people, Hillary surprisingly turned to varministry.
Etymology: varmint+ minister= varminister
Commanicate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: kom-AN-eh-kayt
Sentence: Meredith seems to have a natural rapport with all kinds of critters and is even able to commanicate with them directly.
Etymology: Blend of 'communicate' (the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information) and 'animal' (major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa).
Mallardkey
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mal lard kee
Sentence: Dinah Drake was given to talking to her pet Duck, Quacker, and he apparently understood her, much better than her friends and family did. In fact, he thought that when she made noises at him, she was just full of mallardkey!
Etymology: Mallard (wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended) & Malarkey (Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive)
Faunetical
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fawn/eh/tic/al
Sentence: Josie was highly faunetical and could use her grasp of faunics to communicate with fauna all over the world.
Etymology: phonetic + fauna
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COMMENTS:
Josie is obviously a highly talented human willing and able to faunacate with all animals. Another brilliant word! - Stevenson0, 2008-03-28: 07:00:00
She is particularly faund of farm animals, especially Mr. Ed because of his large........vocabulary. - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 08:57:00
Excellent: great use of "fauna". Is she the same Josie of "Josie and the Pussycats" fame? I guess she spoke to them in "Catalan " What a faunabulary! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 23:30:00
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