Verboticism: Furbledygook
DEFINITION: n An invented language similar to baby talk, used by pet owners to communicate with their pets. v. To speak to an animal using an invented language.
Voted For: Furbledygook
Successfully added your vote for "Furbledygook".
You still have one vote left...
Petanticate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pet ant ikayt
Sentence: Petula had gone to her Petiotrist many times to try and petanticate better with her pet pug, Petunia. Though a petulant pet, Petunia perpetually tried to pet peeve Petula by pretending not to understand her peticular speech patterns. Finally, Petula put herself in her pooch's persona and put out many puppy perks for Petunia. Amazing what prolific pet perks and persuasive pet lingo can do to persuade a pooch to perform with perfection!
Etymology: Pet (a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement) & Pedantic( marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects) & Communicate (transmit thoughts or feelings or information)
Snuggleswap
Created by: happyhippy
Pronunciation: u say it how u spell it!
Sentence: snuggleswap-- chosen becuase when talking to a pet in this way u want to feel phisical closeness with the animal, or to snuggle. also the swap part of the word is because, aswell as the human urge to understand things, for instace the pet's mind, but also as u want to let the paet know what u r thing,in short u want to swap secrets, so therefore came about the word - snuggleswap
Etymology:
Petolish
Created by: Wordotwist
Pronunciation: Pet o lish
Sentence: When I first came to the US,I found it far easier to understand the petolish people used to speak to their pets,then the English they spoke to me.
Etymology: A combination of pet and lish as in English,Spanish,yidish etc.Joined by the o sound commonly used by owners in words addressed to pets.
Poochuguese
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pooch u geez
Sentence: When Maria cuddled her dog, she spoke fluent Poochuguese. She switched to Felinese when talking to her cat and Pintoguese when talking to her pony.
Etymology: Pooch (pet dog) & Portuguese (Iberian Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil; Portuguese Water Hound, a breed of domesticated dog from the Algarve region of Portugal)
Critterpatter
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: crit-ter-pat-ter
Sentence: Norma cuddled and stroked Barkley, sending out a stream of high-pitched, sappy critterpatter at the puppy, who wiggled and wagged with delight at the attention. Everyone else in the room, though,thought she had completely lost her mind.
Etymology: critter: animal + patter: meaningless talk; chatter
Snoogiewoogie
Created by: kietra
Pronunciation: SNOO-gee-WOO-gee
Sentence: As soon as she saw my cat, she reverted to snoogiewoogie, the primal language of oxytosin.
Etymology: Snoogiewoogie doesn't make sense, but it's a great example of a word someone might say.
Animalingo
Created by: uvadavidg
Pronunciation: an-uh-muh-ling-goh
Sentence: I was kinda hoping to discuss the recent decline in oil prices or the long-term viability of the United Nations as an international organization, but she kept pursing her lips and cooing in this unintelligible animalingo
Etymology: animal plus lingo
Schmalliewallieschmoopsdedo
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: Fuckin sound it out!
Sentence: Jesus, if I type this sentence for reals, I'll never get laid again.
Etymology: Meet me and my bitch, appearing in Austin. 704 bitches