Verboticism: Menagerieatrois
DEFINITION: v. To allow your pet to sleep in your bed even though it may squirrel into your pillows, hog all the sheets, and bulldoze you on to the floor. n. A pet which sleeps in its owner's bed.
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Anoysle
Created by: coolkids58
Pronunciation: Anoeeslee
Sentence: they anoyslee their pet
Etymology:
Bunkimal
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: bunk-i-mal
Sentence: What's that in our bed? Oh, Spot is a bunkimal.
Etymology: bunk-bed animal
Petish
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: PET ish
Sentence: She always talks about and obsesses over whether her cat is okay or not and this petish of hers is causing us problems.
Etymology: FETISH: the fact that a person spends too much time doing or thinking about a particular thing PET: an animal or bird etc. that we keep in our home for pleasure
Domesticomforter
Created by: picabomama
Pronunciation: domest/i/comfort/er
Sentence: As a puppy, Julie's Great Pyrenees was a fluffy little bedmate. Now, "Baby" has blossomed into a domesticomforter, sprawling out on top of Julie and her new boyfriend eliminating the need for an electric blanket.
Etymology: domesticated animal + comfort
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COMMENTS:
Sweet! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 10:25:00
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Petbulldozer
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: pet-bull-doh-zur
Sentence: Because he slept with several petbulldozers, Rob generally awoke to find himself on the floor, shivering, and chewing on someone else's cud.
Etymology: pit bull, pet, bulldoze, doze
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COMMENTS:
Quadterrific etymology! A four-bagger, grand slam, home run with this very witty creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 10:36:00
Very creative! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-13: 22:00:00
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Capetulate
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: kə-pěch'ə-lāt'
Sentence: Cindy's cat Nigel was so used to sleeping with her that she and Tim were forced to capetulate when he started sleeping over.
Etymology: capitulate, to surrender unconditionally + (to one's) pet
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COMMENTS:
The one letter changes embedding one word in another are ever so clerver. Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 21:55:00
It's the year of the cat; sorry the rat. Perhaps there hope yet! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-13: 22:09:00
excellent - bookowl, 2008-03-14: 14:29:00
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Beastow
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: beest/stoh
Sentence: John beastows his bed with his golden Labrador retriever who takes up three-quartes of the bed when fully stretched out.
Etymology: beast (animal) + bestow (share, apportion, give part)
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COMMENTS:
Clever Pun! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 02:19:00
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Codormesticate
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: co-dorm-es-tih-cayt
Sentence: Jeffrey was caught between getting a good night sleep and having the girl of his dreams put him out if he didn't let her codormesticating cat have its way among the bed.
Etymology: co- together + dorm- to sleep/domesticate- belonging to the house
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COMMENTS:
I'd have to say that Jeffrey in this case would suffer from the same malady as yesterday's verboticism! - arrrteest, 2008-03-13: 00:42:00
Nice Triple Play! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 02:17:00
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