Verboticisms

Created by: Keeah

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: roh-lee-po-lee

Sentence: "Polly wants a cracker", a phrase repeated and reacted upon so many times that Polly is a rolypolly.

Etymology: rolly-poly (short and plumply round, as a person or a young anima) polly (a tame parrot)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: ig noh ray mau sser

Sentence: her ignoramouser dribbled, drooled, slept, sprawled and stank, but she hadn't had any visiting rodents since he'd arrived, which was fine by her.

Etymology: ignoramous mouser

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: cat as tro fee

Sentence: As pets go, Felix was a catastrophy...lazy, stupid, house-wrecking cute ball of adorable feline.

Etymology: Cat ( feline pet) & Catastrophe (disaster) & Trophy (award, token)

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Created by: Biscotti

Pronunciation: le-th-laar-ji-kaat

Sentence: Angie's cat Milo was such a leglargicat. Always meowing for more food, she was so good at getting what she wanted with that cute little purr.

Etymology: Lethargy (laziness) + large (fat) + cat (common household pet)

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COMMENTS:

Clever word! - splendiction, 2009-04-23: 21:26:00

Biscotti, I really enjoy your clever creativeness :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-24: 06:53:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: pol lee kod del

Sentence: When Old Lady Harris finally passed on from Shaker's Acres to the Great Beyond, the only thing she left her niece, Bethany, was her beloved, Hyacinth Macaw parrot, Polly. Polly could talk, incessantly, as it turns out and demanded all Bethany's attention. It turns out,too, her aunt had treated Polly like a baby and as a result she had been able to pollycoddle the raucous bird and spoil her rotten. When Polly did not get her way she screached and swore loudly. "Oh well," thought Bethany, "at least she also left me a few bucks to buy food and supplies for the bird". It was with horror then that Bethany read that parrots like Polly lived to the age of one hundred!

Etymology: Polly (popular name for a pet parrot) & Mollycoddle (a pampered darling;treat with excessive indulgence)

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: PETCH-you-LACKS

Sentence: His name was Anfernee- loveable boob! Not really more than a fuzzy food tube. Out on a ledge, too fat to turn round… He sat there and cried, and hoped to be found. Chewed his way into a couple food sacks- Now he’s dozing away like a real PETULAX!

Etymology: PETUlant+LAX=PETULAX.....PETULANT: characterized by temporary or capricious ill humor, insolent or rude in speech or behavior; Latin or Middle French; Middle French, from Latin petulant-, petulans; akin to Latin petere to go to, attack, seek [1598].....LAX: having loose bowels, articulated with the muscles involved in a relatively relaxed state, deficient in firmness, slack; Middle English, from Latin laxus loose [14th century].

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Please have all pets tutored and sprayed. Although some insist that they have the capacity to love, felinisaurs have very little use as "work animals". - metrohumanx, 2009-04-23: 08:25:00

All great word fun, especially your comment above ... how you suit-or and play! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-23: 10:12:00

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Created by: fabdiva

Pronunciation: dim-yum

Sentence: Linda often wondered why her dimyum always licked himself in front of guests.

Etymology: Dim - stupid or slow to understand. Yum - delicious

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Created by: clevercommentary

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Sentence: Look at that scrumpy feline!

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: in pet u gush

Sentence: Simone realized she was a pet owner who was impetyougush. She had found Marshmallow, her white Persian cat when a kitten and raised her to sleek adulthood. Marshmallow slept 16-20 hours a day on the top of the couch. Simone fed her, cleaned out her stink box and just when she felt unappreciated, Marshmallow would roll over on her back and look adorable. When Simone came home from a hard day, Marshmallow would reach our her paw and touch Simone, so that she had no choice but to pat her. Then the purring would commence and Simone would unwind and relax. She soon realized that people measured cats' intelligence by their own standards. If you were an impartial observer, you'd wonder who was smarter: a cat who did whatever it wanted all day long with no accountability or pressures or the stupid human who raced home from a hard day at work to strain poop out of kitty litter, fill up the food bowl and put clean water in a dish and then hope the animal you did all that for would grace you with a purr or tummy rub offer or rub against your legs. Yep, cats aren't the stupid ones, are they??

Etymology: Impetuous (characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation) & Pet (preferred above all others and treated with partiality; a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement) & You Gush (you give an unrestrained expression of emotion)

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Outstanding etymology. Your word play on impetuous is purrfecshun! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-23: 02:07:00

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