Verboticism: Harmucation
DEFINITION: v. To leave your pet, child or lover in the care of a friend or relative who teaches them a stupid trick or bad habit. n. A stupid trick or bad habit learned from a caregiver.
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Cusstoadyan
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: kuss/tow/deean
Sentence: Ever since little Gerry started spending time with his reprobate uncle he has picked up several unsuitable phrases for members of the family. It's no wonder because his uncle is a cusstoadyan.
Etymology: custodian + cuss + toady
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COMMENTS:
Great interplay! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 19:26:00
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Prankma
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: prank-mar
Sentence: Bonny was starting to suspect that her mother was behaving subversively when babysitting her toddlers. Every time they stayed at Nanna's they would spend the following days saying that singlets were uncool, only dweebs wore hats and that making them tidy up their toys was inhibiting their creative development. Bonny was ready to confront Nanna about the prankmas.
Etymology: prank (joke, jape, trick) + grandma (an overly put upon family member who often cares for their grandchildren)
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COMMENTS:
welcome back petaj - great little story - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-26: 13:14:00
Good comeback! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-26: 16:13:00
Clever interplay! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 19:25:00
thanks for the welcome back - although I did verbotomize a couple of days back it has been weeks since i played regularly. - petaj, 2008-02-27: 05:29:00
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Petstidigitation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: petz - tuh - didj - ih - tay -shun
Sentence: While keeping his brother in law Morton's favorite hunting dog while Morton was on vacation, Myron resorted to some underhanded petstidigitation to teach the old dog a couple new and socially unacceptable tricks.
Etymology: blend of pet and prestidigitation (sleight of hand or ('trick')
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COMMENTS:
Petty good! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 18:58:00
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Caressconvoluted
Created by: freiflug
Pronunciation: /kəˈreskɒnvəˈluːted/
Sentence: "After I have received my turtle Frances back from my brother-in-law, all he does is nibbling the telephone cable. Frances has totally been caressconvoluted."
Etymology: caress: to touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle convulsion: an intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction; an uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm Convulsion hereby alters/modifies the meaning of "caress", concluding in a somewhat spoiled interpretation of caressing sth. or so.
Cawrupt
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: caw rupt
Sentence: My biggest pollygripe about picking up my pet parrot,Polly Walnuts, from my brother after my vacation was to find that he tried to cawrupt the Gullible bird. Instead of saying his usual "Polly wanna cracker", my brother taught him to swear and to answer the phone and impersonate others. He'd say his name was Capt.Jack Sparrow or Peter Finch or Walter Pigeon or Bird Reynolds or Jay Leno or Dan Quail or Denny Crane or Robin Leach or Russell Crow or Feather Locklear or Placido Flamingo. He also taught him rude sentences like, "Come over and I'll show you a cockatoo" or "You should see the big Parakeets in the next cage" and "You're a Raven Loonatic". One thing about birds is that you cannot unteach them to say something once it is wired into their tiny brains on a Condor that they aren't too Swift and that is something that is very hard to Swallow!
Etymology: corrupt (alter from the original;place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; containing errors or alterations)& Caw (a sound made by birds)
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COMMENTS:
That gave your parrot something to crow about. - Mustang, 2008-12-10: 22:48:00
This is funny....got my vote... - mweinmann, 2008-12-11: 18:27:00
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Naukintrait
Created by: jajsr
Pronunciation: Nah-kin-tr-eight
Sentence: After Billy's parents came back from their romantic get-a-way, they learned that Billy picked up all kinds of naukintraits from his aunt and uncle.
Etymology: Mixture of "Nau" from naughty: lacking in taste or propriety, "Kin": one's relatives, and "Trait": an inherited characteristic.
Unclewd
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: əngkəloōd
Sentence: The kids loved it when Uncle Lew came to visit or to babysit. Cindy is a bit hesitant to ask him to watch the kids. She was never sure what unclewd trick or stunt he would teach them. Last time it was **pull my finger** for the 2-year-old. The time before that, Michael Jackson-style crotch grabs for the 4-year-old. What next?
Etymology: uncle (the brother of one*s father or mother or the husband of one\'s aunt) + lewd (crude and offensive in a sexual way)
Zootard
Created by: XMbIPb
Pronunciation: /zo-o-tard/ (note: each of the “o”s is a distinct sound as in “zoology,” for example; /zu-tard/ is INcorrect)
Sentence: Q. “Can you believe it?! We left our pet beagle with my idiot brother-in-law for a mere fortnight and that zootard taught it how to leg-hump anyone who sits in my favourite recliner!” A. “What’s so strange about that? I thought all dogs leg-hump?” Q. “Male dogs do. But Betsy’s a bitch!”
Etymology: zoo – fr. Greek for “animal” -tard – a slang root derived from the word “retard”