Verboticisms

Created by: stache

Pronunciation: kə-pěch'ə-lāt'

Sentence: Cindy's cat Nigel was so used to sleeping with her that she and Tim were forced to capetulate when he started sleeping over.

Etymology: capitulate, to surrender unconditionally + (to one's) pet

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COMMENTS:

The one letter changes embedding one word in another are ever so clerver. Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 21:55:00

It's the year of the cat; sorry the rat. Perhaps there hope yet! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-13: 22:09:00

excellent - bookowl, 2008-03-14: 14:29:00

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Created by: twocent

Pronunciation: flE-s-TAH

Sentence: It didn't matter how much whining he did or how many "discussions" were weathered, Dennis knew choosing to spend the night with Nina invariably meant another fleaesta with her cats.

Etymology: Fleaesta v. tr. combination of flea: a blood-sucking parasite that feeds on mammals and birds, known for its leaping ability siesta: a midday nap as taken in Spain and Latin America.

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COMMENTS:

Purrfect! Does Dennis live in CATalonia, Spain? - Nosila, 2009-01-06: 23:18:00

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Created by: mzzmee265

Pronunciation: pet-hog-a-list

Sentence: He has a pethogalist pet, he lets her sleep in the bed.

Etymology: pet-animal you are responsible for; hog-to take over;

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: In - sow - mmm - nee - ah

Sentence: Clarise the pig owned the bed. Ever since she was a piglet, she had been allowed to sleep in between Joyce and Phil and as she became larger, it became more and more difficult to sleep. Clarise constantly rolled over during the night, made loud hog snores, hogged the sheets, and squished them; leaving both of them with a horrible case of insowmnia.

Etymology: Insomnia (an inability to sleep, chronic sleeplessness) + Sow (An adult female hog)

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COMMENTS:

Still chuckling over the way you hammed it up. Hog snores! I can hear the noisy swhine over here. Cheers ... here's a glass of s-wine! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-06: 11:13:00

How now brown sow....cheers!! - mweinmann, 2009-01-06: 14:41:00

It's not a boaring story...it's a wiener! - Nosila, 2009-01-06: 23:27:00

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: co dee PET ent

Sentence: You know how 1-year-olds move around a lot when they sleep and wind up in funny and cute positions? And how if you sleep with them, you sometimes end up with a foot or a butt in your face? Well, it isn't so cute when they are 8 and still in your bed, but taking up a lot more room, and you get kicked or punched all the time. So you have to feel bad for Indy Cysive, whose 8-year-old happened to be a chimpanzee who still insisted on sleeping in Indy's bed every night. Indy had even bought a special bed just for Harry the chimp, but every night when she tried to put Harry in it, he whimpered and wrapped his arms around her. Indy secretly missed those chimp baby years when he had needed her so much, and she was too much of a codepetent to say no to Harry. So the expensive pet bed remained unused. And almost every morning, Indy woke to find a fuzzy arm draped over her face. At least Harry was willing to keep his diapers on, since he did weigh 150 pounds by then.

Etymology: codependent + pet

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COMMENTS:

ooo ooh, aah aah...Indy (love her name) has my chimpathy! - Nosila, 2010-05-21: 17:57:00

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Created by: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: PET ish

Sentence: She always talks about and obsesses over whether her cat is okay or not and this petish of hers is causing us problems.

Etymology: FETISH: the fact that a person spends too much time doing or thinking about a particular thing PET: an animal or bird etc. that we keep in our home for pleasure

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Created by: garythesnail

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Created by: arrrteest

Pronunciation: co-dorm-es-tih-cayt

Sentence: Jeffrey was caught between getting a good night sleep and having the girl of his dreams put him out if he didn't let her codormesticating cat have its way among the bed.

Etymology: co- together + dorm- to sleep/domesticate- belonging to the house

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COMMENTS:

I'd have to say that Jeffrey in this case would suffer from the same malady as yesterday's verboticism! - arrrteest, 2008-03-13: 00:42:00

Nice Triple Play! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 02:17:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: beest/stoh

Sentence: John beastows his bed with his golden Labrador retriever who takes up three-quartes of the bed when fully stretched out.

Etymology: beast (animal) + bestow (share, apportion, give part)

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COMMENTS:

Clever Pun! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 02:19:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: crit - er - mait

Sentence: Gerold and Dagmar had taken Scruffy in when he was very young and Scruffy believed they were his siblings. He made himself right at home as their crittermate, even taking up half their bed at night.

Etymology: Critter and mate - a play on the word littermate

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COMMENTS:

Clever sentence! Clever Word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 13:41:00

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