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DEFINITION: v. To leave your pet, child or lover in the care of a friend or relative who teaches them a stupid trick or bad habit. n. A stupid trick or bad habit learned from a caregiver.
Verboticisms
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Uncooltomfoolery
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: un-cool-tom-foo-la-ree
Sentence: what uncooltomfoolery is this? I leave you in your uncle's care for just 1 day and he has set about untraining the good habits we instilled in you. Now scrub off that ridiculous tattoo and put the bottle back in the wine rack.
Etymology: uncool (not approved) + uncle (someone often entrusted to care for nieces and nephews) + tomfoolery (nonsense) + uncle tom (yes i have one of those)
Pollytechnique
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pol lee tek neek
Sentence: When Uncle Mikey babysat the Miller's parrot on their annual vacation, she usually learned a new pollytechnique. This year Polly added 3 new swear words to her vocabulary. These words only seemed to be used when the easily-offended were around. You just cannot unteach an old bird new tricks...
Etymology: Polly (common name for a parrot) I Technique (skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity) & word play on Polytechnic (a technical school offering instruction in many industrial arts and applied sciences)
Misdeminder
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: miss de mine der
Sentence: Rex's new misdeminers had increased since she left him for a fortnight with her teenage nephew. Chief among the new ones was his ability to whip the knickers off any visiting lady who got near enough to pat his head.
Etymology: misdemeanor, minder
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-26: 11:28:00
like it - yellowbird, 2008-02-26: 15:28:00
Very good! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-26: 16:00:00
So innovative! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 19:10:00
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Guardiantic
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /gahr-dee-AN-tik/
Sentence: It was only Eliza's third week teaching the 10-year-old class in Sunday School, but when the organist was late, she had to help out with choir practice, too. She reluctantly asked her father to stand-in and watch the Sunday School class. When she returned, she found her dear ole' Dad teaching the kids how to run a football pool, how to build a moonshine still, and other guardiantics.
Etymology: guardian - a person entrusted with the care of a minor (from Middle French, garde "guardian, warden, keeper") antic - a ludicrous or grotesque act (from Italian, antico "antique", originally referring to 'grotesque' Roman art)
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COMMENTS:
This is a true story... mostly. "Eliza's" father was actually teaching 10-year-olds how to run a football pool. - Tigger, 2008-02-26: 01:58:00
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-26: 16:00:00
Clever blend of two words that really nailed the definition! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 18:42:00
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Prankma
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: prank-mar
Sentence: Bonny was starting to suspect that her mother was behaving subversively when babysitting her toddlers. Every time they stayed at Nanna's they would spend the following days saying that singlets were uncool, only dweebs wore hats and that making them tidy up their toys was inhibiting their creative development. Bonny was ready to confront Nanna about the prankmas.
Etymology: prank (joke, jape, trick) + grandma (an overly put upon family member who often cares for their grandchildren)
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COMMENTS:
welcome back petaj - great little story - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-26: 13:14:00
Good comeback! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-26: 16:13:00
Clever interplay! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 19:25:00
thanks for the welcome back - although I did verbotomize a couple of days back it has been weeks since i played regularly. - petaj, 2008-02-27: 05:29:00
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Nannierism
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: nan/ni/riz/um
Sentence: We just put our three-year olds ability to swear with an accent down to another nannierism learned from his live-in babysitter.
Etymology: NANNIERISM - noun - from NANNY (a person employed to care for children in a household) + MANNERISM (Exaggerated, or affected style, or habit, as in dress, or speech)
Surrohgreat
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: sir-oh-grate
Sentence: I hesistated to let my brother watch my child as he proved his status as a surrohgreat last time when he taught her a score of filthy limericks.
Etymology: surrogate + oh great!
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COMMENTS:
Took me a moment to parse this one, but it made me chuckle when it clicked. - ErWenn, 2008-02-26: 10:12:00
it sort of reminds me of sewer grate which would be a grate place for filthy limericks - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-26: 13:24:00
Wouldn't you like to gate the mouths on the sirs who are surrohgreats! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 19:07:00
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Malerudio
Created by: newmaa14
Pronunciation:
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Etymology: Mal-meaning bad and Eurido- latin for teach
Manureism
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: man/ur/ism
Sentence: A weekend with his 8 year old twin cousins was all it took to teach the toddler all sorts of manureisms. Talk about potty mouth
Etymology: manure + mannerism
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-26: 16:14:00
Would you like some Mum spray deodorant for the manureism mouths? - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 18:55:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James