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'Do you really get paid to insult people?'

DEFINITION: n. A person who insults people for a living. v. To get paid to insult your customers.

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Epithetier

Created by: thewbert

Pronunciation: 'e-p&-"thet-E-A

Sentence: When I insulted his mother, I had no idea he was an epithetier.

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Customeffacer

Created by: heb319

Pronunciation: ku-stom-a-fa-ser

Sentence: The customeffacer ridiculed the client for being to cheap to buy a brand-name power tool with a 5-year warranty.

Etymology: from "customer" as well as "custom" since the customeffacer must create custom insults for individual situations. Also from the word efface, which obliterates all the joy the customer believed to have found in the "bargain."

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Occupationalhazeard

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: occu/apy/shun/al/hyz/ard

Sentence: Joan was an occupationalhazeard and lived for the thrill she got from her endless put downs.

Etymology: occupational hazard + haze (humiliate, ridicule) + ardor (zeal)

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Chideandseek

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: chīdandsēk

Sentence: After the hazard warning by Consumer Reports the job of the Customer Disservice Representatives is to do their best to shift the blame for problems back on to customers. With a technique they call chideandseek, they admonish callers for not following the overly-complicated owners manual that includes such sage wisdom as using safety goggles and chain-mail gloves when using any sharp product. If guilt does*t work, the trump card is to suggest that they are passing the call to a supervisor. Of course, all this does is put them back into the maze of a phone tree system.

Etymology: chide (scold or rebuke) + hide-and-seek (a children*s game in which one player tries to find other players who have hidden themselves)

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Abusologist

metrohumanx

Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: uh-buse-awl-uh-jist

Sentence: Bergen Community College has a full-time ABUSOLOGIST on it's staff. Her unending tirade of snide remarks ensures an atmosphere of academic fear and dismay.

Etymology: ABUSE- a mean-spirited attitude -OLOGIST-one who has devoted a lifetime of study....

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COMMENTS:

metrohumanx Don't do any favors. Don't volunteer your opinion. Don't co-operate with ANY department. James Sternick - metrohumanx, 2008-06-30: 17:44:00

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Vulgaressional

Created by: jonobo

Pronunciation: "vulgar" like vulgar, "essional" like in professional.

Sentence: He was the highest ranking vulgaressional in business - they simply called him "The Vulgarator" (but friends called him simply jonobo).

Etymology: vulgar + professional = vulgaressional

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Affronterologist

Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: aff-runt-er-ol-o-jist

Sentence: Jillian, a reknowned affronterologist, could peel the ego off a grown man in less than 15 seconds.

Etymology: affrontery + ologist

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Dissender

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: dih-sen-der

Sentence: Brad didn't actually do anything but unleash well timed zingers to his office mates on a daily basis, they would call him a dissender but he liked to think of it as morale maintenance.

Etymology: Diss - Sender, Dissenter

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Rickletist

Created by: poogas

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I can really keep the one-liner put-downs flying given my talents as the world's foremost Rickletist; now if I could only figure out why people would pay hard-earned money to come to shows like that.

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Walmartyr

CharlieB

Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: wal-martyr

Sentence: He didn't enjoy his job at the store much. So made it more fun by becoming a walmartyr i.e. making it clear he wasn't happy by insulting all the customers.

Etymology: walmart (a multinational retailer) + martyr (someone who seeks sympathy by exaggerating their pain or suffering)

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-23: 00:20:00
Today's definition was suggested by an anonymous donor. Thank you for sharing! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-23: 01:39:00
Weeklink is at it again! Read Verbotoweek! A look back at last week's weirdest words and funniest comments. See the Verbotomy Blog.

playdohheart playdohheart - 2007-04-23: 07:09:00
That gentleman bears a striking resemblance to Bruce McCulloch.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-23: 09:35:00
I hope Mr. McCulloch isn't insulted... ~ James

ErWenn - 2007-04-23: 18:17:00
I've often noticed that the verbotoons have striking similarities to famous people. I wonder if the artist uses reference photos...

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-23: 22:38:00
As Kurt Vonnegut said of his novels, this artwork is fiction and "All persons living or dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed." Except of course, for the drawing of Vonnegut himself, which is meant to be who it appears to be. ~ James

ErWenn - 2007-04-24: 00:11:00
Everybody's coincidental? All 12 billion of us? I like the sound of that. And I definitely agree that you shouldn't construe anybody. It's just not nice, even if they are already dead.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-04-25: 03:20:00
Yes, it's just a bunch of moments which may, or may not be connected... ~ James

Clayton - 2007-05-13: 02:34:00
Invectivator

metrohumanx metrohumanx - 2008-07-01: 06:17:00
CONGRATS! INSULTANT is simple yet effective. I wish i could learn not to use a large word when a diminutive one will do. Economy is everything.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-11-09: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by wordmeister. Thank you wordmeister. ~ James