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DEFINITION: n. A person who has the highly developed ability to communicate on a direct level with any type of animal, except for human beings. v. To talk to animals because you know that communicating with people is useless.
Verboticisms
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Farmversation
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: farm - vur - say - shun
Sentence: Lucy had an inability to talk to humans but could always be found in farmversation with the horses, ducks, cows or goats. Somehow she felt at ease and understood by the animals.
Etymology: farm, conversation
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COMMENTS:
Farma Supra! - Nosila, 2009-05-18: 13:19:00
Prolly has a tough time deciding which pet to eat at Thanksgiving. - Mustang, 2009-05-18: 19:23:00
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Varminister
Created by: queenjane75
Pronunciation: var-min-ist-er
Sentence: Having lost the backing of the people, Hillary surprisingly turned to varministry.
Etymology: varmint+ minister= varminister
Drewlittle
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: droo-lit-l
Sentence: Andrew is not very comfortable talking to people. He would prefer chattering with squirrels or honking with geese. He is so good at mimicking animals that you would think he knew what they were saying. His few friends have taken to calling him Dr. Drewlittle.
Etymology: Drew (nickname for Andrew) + Dr. Dolittle (central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting, known for his ability to talk to animals in their native language)
Animunciate
Created by: kashman
Pronunciation: anee-mun-sea-ate
Sentence: Lauren has always been an animal lover. Her parents supported her animunciation hoping that it's just a phase in her growing up life. But when they were told by Lauren's teachers that she animunciates with the rats and frogs in her school's biology lab, they knew something was wrong. Later on when she went to college and one Thanksgiving week they received a call from her that she is bringing "someone" with her, it got them all excited. Finally, the Thanksgiving day arrived and the door bell rang; Lauren's parents opened the door beamingly to find her animunciating with a dog!
Etymology: Animal + Enunciate (to speak clearly)
Telepetist
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: tell-e-pet-ist
Sentence: Carmina had one up on Dr. Dolittle. Not only could she communicate with her menagerie of animals, but as a telepetist she could send and receive messages with them using only the power of her mind.
Etymology: telepathist (one who can communicate directly without using sensory perception) + tell (a mode of communication) + pet (domestic animal)
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COMMENTS:
love the sound of telepetist - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:10:00
Good One...being telepetist is way better than being telepathetic! - Nosila, 2008-03-28: 23:05:00
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Mallardkey
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mal lard kee
Sentence: Dinah Drake was given to talking to her pet Duck, Quacker, and he apparently understood her, much better than her friends and family did. In fact, he thought that when she made noises at him, she was just full of mallardkey!
Etymology: Mallard (wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended) & Malarkey (Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive)
Critterpatter
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: crit - er - patr
Sentence: Helga had a gift that enabled her to 'converse' with all sorts of animals and whenever she was around them she'd keep up a continual twitter of critterpatter.
Etymology: critter and patter
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COMMENTS:
love it - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:23:00
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Anication
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: an-uh-kay-shun
Sentence: When Angie started talking to the mosquitos, her parents knew she was practicing anication. She refused to speak to any human being, claiming that animals and/or insects were far superior in intelligence; meaning they made better conversation as well.
Etymology: Animal (lions and tigers and bears..oh my!) + communication (to speak with)
Arkticulate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ark tik you late
Sentence: Fauna could arkticulate with any kind of animal on the planet. She had a rare gift that allowed her to speak and be understood by each creature in their native tongue. She could hawk-talk;yakity-yak;elephant-rant;utter-otter;giraffe-gaffe;fish-dish;talk turkey;rattler-tattler;shark-bark;rabbit-on;horse-discourse and goat-quote. She was fluent in flamingo-lingo & dingo-lingo;fox-talks & ox-talks;cat-chat & rat-chat;ram-jam & lamb-jam;seal-spiel & eel-spiel;hog-blog & dog-blog;lynx-thinks;gander-slander;worm-term;panda-memoranda and leech-speech. She could also speak legal-beagle;bird-word;spout-trout;jaw-macaw;slang-orangutang;fawn-phonetics;gibbons-gibber;rhino-rhetoric;ass-sass;bear-criticism and pelican-brief. She had a built-in critter transmitter. She knew American Swine language and was considered fly-lingual. Yes, Fauna deerly loved all creatures but one: people. They were the real beasts!
Etymology: ark (as in Noah's Ark, where there were 2 of every every kind of animal on Earth) & articulate (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way or put into words or an expression)
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COMMENTS:
Whoo hoo! Your sentence is laugh-out-loud funny. 'bear-criticism and pelican- brief.' Love it. how about knowing the worm terms and the ant rants? can't leave out the lesser among us, now, can we? - stache, 2008-03-28: 01:44:00
jeez-you amended before I could post my comment and beat me to one of 'em! - stache, 2008-03-28: 01:46:00
sorry, stache, as soon as I go to end it,I think of another. Make the animal voices stop! - Nosila, 2008-03-28: 01:50:00
funky-glibbon, gosshawk-gossip, cricket-critique, crow-crow, raven-on, - fun stuff, got my vote. - petaj, 2008-03-28: 07:40:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:26:00
Cheers, mates...After I signed off, they kept popping in my head: wombat-chat;moose-juice; and many other terns of phrases! - Nosila, 2008-03-28: 23:58:00
Missed this one completely:great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 20:40:00
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Zoochat
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: zoo' - chat
Sentence: Jodi was a real quackadoodle when it came to the animal kingdom, she much preferred to zoochat with the animals than the human race
Etymology: zoo ( Gr. animals) + chat (talk, converse, communicate)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by leechdude. Thank you leechdude. ~ James
stache - 2008-03-28: 01:36:00
Great 'toon, as usual. Thanks for the def, too, leechdude.
stache - 2008-03-28: 17:48:00
thanks, JW.
stache - 2008-03-28: 17:50:00
oops. wrong box.
We are starting our summer season at Verbotomy today -- which means we are re-doing some of favorite Verbotomies from the past. Today's definition was suggested by leechdude. Thank you leechdude ~ James
readerwriter - 2009-05-18: 10:06:00
Whew...thanks for the update! I thought it was reducks...
Reducks revisited... ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by leechdude. Thank you leechdude. ~ James
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