DEFINITION: v. To prevent someone from participating in an undesired activity by engaging them in another activity which makes it impossible to do the first. n. Two things cannot be done at the same time.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Disstract: /dis trakt/ When Sonya’s boyfriend, Skippy, was “in the mood” and Sonya wasn’t,which was often, she’d put him off by trying to disstract him. She’d complain about his breath, his hygiene, the fact that he never took her out or bought her nice things. By the time she was done, his ardor was cooled as surely as if she had thrown ice water over him. He never did figure out that this disstraction was the antidote to Viagra. Etymology: Diss (treat, mention, or speak to rudely) & Distract (draw someone’s attention away from something) Created by: Nosila.
Dimswitch: /dimswich/ Jill’s boyfriend Donny is not the sharpest tool on the bench. If he starts to perform embarrassing bar tricks at a party she employs her patented dimswitch technique, a.k.a. the ooh-look-a-shiny-thing tactic. It never fails. Etymology: dim (not bright) + switch (change the position, direction, or focus of) Created by: artr.
Sublimatention: /sub-lim-a-ten-shen/ Karen used sublimatention successfully to redirect Ron’s focus from a bad behavior to a good one. Now, instead of nose mining in public, he cleans his glasses. Etymology: subliminal: below the threshold of conscious perception + sublimate: direct energy from a socially improper behavior to an acceptable one + mate: spouse + attention: concentrated focus of the mind Created by: mrskellyscl.
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