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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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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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Anipurr
Created by: spotthecat1
Pronunciation: anee-purr
Sentence: The girl was so busy anipurring that she failed to notice that the rat had chewed off her earlobe.
Etymology: animal + purr
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COMMENTS:
I find your sentence very funny, which rather worries me. - stache, 2008-03-28: 12:50:00
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Aniverbositous
Created by: ziggy
Pronunciation: an-i-ver-bos-it-ous
Sentence: Melissa was the most Aniverbositous soul I'd ever happened upon. She would go shopping and refuse to speak to the salesperson unless it was through a pidgeon, she called it using pidgeon English.
Etymology: Ani: derived from animal, verb: from verbal:having plenty to say! Bositous cos it sounds like bossy toes!!
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COMMENTS:
pidgeon english. heh. - stache, 2008-03-30: 20:44:00
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Creacom
Created by: Kevin0719
Pronunciation: cree-ah-calm
Sentence: Eli would often sit and chat with the possums right before we ate them, but once he was at the dinner table he showed his creacom colors by only chittering and humping the table leg.
Etymology: "creature" and "communication"
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COMMENTS:
funny sentence, kev. you from alabama, or mississippi? gotta be one of the two. or arkansas. maybe texas? - stache, 2008-03-30: 20:49:00
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Communicat
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kəmyoōnəkat
Sentence: After seeing Cats 37 times Alley felt that she could communicat. She felt that she could speak to her feline friends in their native tongue. She was dissappointed when the guy at the piercing shop politely told her that he was fresh out of implantable whiskers. When she tried to communicat with her human friends they collectively decided that their eccentric chum had gone over the edge. Even though Tom was a bit turned on when Alley started licking herself and purring, he joined in on the planning for an intervention.
Etymology: commune (feel in close spiritual contact with) + communicate (share or exchange information) + cat (a small domesticated carnivorous mammal with soft fur, a short snout, and retractile claws)
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COMMENTS:
smart word, twisted sentence...love it - DrWebster111, 2009-05-18: 22:10:00
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Confaunabulation
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: kôn-fôn-āb'yə-lā'shən
Sentence: Most often, the conversations between Cindy and her overweight but handsome cat, Nigel, were rather one-sided. In the mornings, he screamed to be let into the bedroom or out, or she screamed at him to SHUT UUUUUPPPPP!!!! However, in their most private moments, when the kids had been put to bed, and after John was long gone to slumberland, their confaunabulations were deep, personal and rewarding to them both.
Etymology: con, Australian adaptation, "one sentenced to penitence;" faun, derived from fawn, Middle English faunen, from Old English fagnian, to rejoice, from fagen, fægen, glad, to exhibit affection or attempt to please; ab, shortened form of abdomen, Latin abdōmen, belly, the part of the body of a mammal between the thorax and the pelvis; ulation, shortened form of ululation, from pp. stem of ululare "ululate," a reduplicated imitative base (cf. Gk. ololyzein "to cry aloud," Skt. ululih "a howling," Lith. uluti "howl," Gael. uileliugh "wail of lamentation," O.E. ule "owl"), a howling or wailing.
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COMMENTS:
great word stache - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 13:54:00
thanks jw - stache, 2008-03-28: 17:51:00
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Diafrog
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dīəfrôg
Sentence: Unable to find her prince, Jessica is left talking to any number of toads. She’s been known to work her tale off on this one-sided diafrog.
Etymology: dialogue (conversation between two or more people) + frog (a tailless amphibian with a short squat body, moist smooth skin, and very long hind legs for leaping) Unwilling alter ego of princes in fairy tales.
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)
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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