Verboticism: Muddlemutt
DEFINITION: n. A person who has difficulty controlling their pets, especially if they often become entangled in the leashes. v. To get entangled in the leashes of one's pets.
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Awkwinate
Created by: jajsr
Pronunciation: Ark-win-ate
Sentence: Jim was the worst dog walker ever. Trying to control five dogs at once, he always found himself awkwinated.
Etymology: Combination of "Awkw" from awkward - lacking dexterity or skill; and "inate" from dominate - to rule or control.
Muzzletoff
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: muz zel toff
Sentence: Dogless was a Muzzletoff. He had been born of a wealthy family and was educated in the finest boarding schools. Th only trouble he had was convincing his folks that he could be the best dogwalker on the Planet. They were horrified at a boy of his breeding doing a doggy round up and having asteer home contest every month. He had tough skin and it let him be carried away. Guys like Dogless, they deserved to be lonely and tied up in their work.
Etymology: Play on Mazel Tov (Good Fortune in Hebrew) & Muzzle (a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting) & Toff (an elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners)
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COMMENTS:
Hehe! Good one. - GlobalGallery, 2009-02-03: 08:18:00
Your ending, last line, is ever so fine. Super create that can apply to both dog and man! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-03: 08:56:00
This is hilarious!! - mweinmann, 2009-02-03: 09:51:00
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Petzel
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: petsəl
Sentence: Rod’s dogs each has a mind of its own. If one wants to go north the other wants to go south. If one wants to go down the sidewalk, the other wants to go around a tree. As they go this way and that he either looks like a contortionist or a petzel wrapped in leashes.
Etymology: pet (a domestic or tamed animal or bird kept for companionship or pleasure and treated with care and affection) + pretzel (a crisp biscuit baked in the form of a knot)
Basenjig
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: BAZ-n-JIG
Sentence: Bob quickly realized that the jig was up when, on the very first day of obedience training school, his new puppy bazenjigged him from go to whoa.
Etymology: blending of BASENJI: A breed of hunting dog that originated in central Africa, basenjis have the reputation of being very difficult to obedience-train. Veronica Anne Starbuck's 2000 novel Heart of the Savannah features a basenji named Savannah. & JIG: to move with a quick, jerky motion; hop; bob "From go to whoa" a 1970s australianism: "from start to finish." "Whoa" pronounced woe.
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COMMENTS:
Great etymology. Laughed to think of how this can also infer a type of dancing with your dog! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-03: 08:43:00
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Wounddog
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: wow und dawg
Sentence: Elvis took his hound for a walk. But the hound didn't like being held back by his leash, so he raced in circles around Elvis, coiling, looping, twisting, spiraling, and curling the leash around Elvis' legs and ankles, even his blue suede shoes. Elvis sang out in misery as he tripped and tumbled down: "You aint nothin but a wounddog, Now I'm cryin all the time. Making me nothin but a bound ground hog, Cryin all the time. Well, you aint never caught a rabbit And you aint no friend of mine."
Etymology: Wound Dog is a play on Hound Dog. There is a way to correct the spelling of the word! After clicking on edit beneath save and go back is "oops! I want to change the spelling of my word" and with a click on that ... voila!
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COMMENTS:
Alas! That has happened to me more than once. - readerwriter, 2009-02-03: 05:47:00
Ohhh nooooo....I suddenly realized we were of like minds and our words are too similar!! - mweinmann, 2009-02-03: 08:57:00
Yes mweinmann, I agree. Glad it was unintentional. Even when this happens deliberately, I just consider it a form of compliment/flattery. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-03: 09:08:00
Good....I felt bad when I realized this had happened.... - mweinmann, 2009-02-03: 09:50:00
that song will stay with me all day!! - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-03: 11:05:00
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Leaderhosing
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: lēdərhōzng
Sentence: When they go for a walk Ralph's dogs like to go wherever they want without regard for what happens with their leashes. A couple quick laps around his leg can leave him with a thorough leaderhosing.
Etymology: leader (leash) + hosing (defeat)
Muddlemutt
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Mudd-el-mutt
Sentence: Sarah took her two German Shepherds for a walk everyday, this led to all sorts of problems due to the fact that they had never had any proper training. Sarah had great difficulty keeping them under control and would often get in such a muddlemutt when the dogs would run around and the leads would get tangled around her legs. Today had been particularly exhausting as she had actually fallen over in the mud and had to go home and get changed again before going to work. She told herself there was nothing else for it, she had got to book them on a dog training behavior course as soon as possible.
Etymology: Muddle(a state of disorder or chaos) + Mutt(a humorous or derogatory name for a dog) = Muddlemutt
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COMMENTS:
nice sentence - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-06: 12:04:00
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Traingled
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: train-gld
Sentence: Sperry Spazolia always got traingled up in the leashes of his pedigreed pets.
Etymology: Train- Teach (a person or animal) a particular skill or type of behavior through practice and instruction over a period of time. Tangled - Existing in or giving the appearance of a state of utter disorder.
Collarcoated
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kall or kot ted
Sentence: To his hip dude friends, he was known as "Dawg" because of his many pet dogs. But to his devoted canine pets he was known as "Doofus" because of his lack of control over them. When they strolled they loved to make him seem collarcoated to the rest of the world. It was not hard to do this, since their iq's were much higher than his, doggone it!
Etymology: Collar (a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it) & Coated ( having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination) Play on color-coded(a method of organizing things by a series of colors for faster identification)
Houndbound
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: how nd bow nd
Sentence: He was so tired of being hound bound that he got rid of the dogs and bought some chickens which he had hoped would be free range, but as they got lost too often he eventually put them on leads. it wasn't long before he became henmeshed.
Etymology: bound, bound
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COMMENTS:
love henmeshed - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-03: 11:02:00
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