Verboticism: Mortifido
DEFINITION: n. Embarrassing pet behavior; may be perfectly natural for the pet, but often makes humans feel self-conscious or ill at ease. v. To be embarrassed by your pet's beahviour
Mortifido
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: more-ti-FIE-do
Sentence: The mortifido exhibited by Angie's cockupspaniel completely destroyed the dog show arena and left Angie with a sheep(dog)ish look on her face
Etymology: mortified + Fido
Points: 392
Comments: Mortifido
pinwheel - 2007-04-27: 07:07:00
"cockupspaniel"... that's priceless!
purpleartichokes - 2007-04-27: 08:00:00
Very good! I tried the Fido path too... best I could come up with was Fi-don't.
Jabberwocky - 2007-04-27: 09:03:00
Excellent word Petaj - as usual - you get my vote
petaj - 2007-04-27: 21:11:00
Thanks Jabberwocky - this week has been much easier for me than Vonnegut week - that was a real struggle to come up with words.