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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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Glossomammalia
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: gloss-o-mam-mail-i-a
Sentence: Emma, Dr. Doolittle's faithful assistant received the gift of glossomammalia one night at an ASPCA rally. She was an especially talented duck whisperer and soon was given her own show on Animal Planet where she would drive to the homes of people who had pets with issues and grievances against their owners. Eventually she went into animalaw, and succesfully argued in front of the Supreme Court to change the law to allow pets to sue their owners for cruelty.
Etymology: Glossolalia: "The gift of tongues" an estatic speech uttered in the worship services of several sects stressing emotion and religious ferver + mammalia: mammal, the highest class of vertebra.
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COMMENTS:
Strangely animerotic word. very good. - metrohumanx, 2009-05-18: 02:17:00
Animammerotic mammocentrism of the highest order! (but not the 'highest class' since none is 'higher' than another) - dochanne, 2009-05-18: 03:14:00
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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
Critterchatter
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: krih-tur-chah-tur
Sentence: Follwing their argument, Teddy overheard Bonnie's critterchatter recapping the entire event to their pet turtle, Morris. He felt a little bad for Morris, as that poor turtle had no where to run to to escape Bonnie's constant droning.
Etymology: chitter chatter + critter
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COMMENTS:
Teddy may have to shell out for therapy for Morris! - Nosila, 2009-05-19: 00:51:00
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Chickchat
Created by: clarice
Pronunciation: chick chat
Sentence: Clarice never believed talking to plants would make them grow faster and healthier. However, she would always chickchat away at the chicken farm. ---- another sentence ---- Clarice and her canary chickchatted all afternoon.
Etymology: chick (young bird especially of domestic fowl, slang for youg ladies) + chat (an informal conversation, birds having a chattering call)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-06-04: 05:47:00
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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)
Assisiate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: a/see/see/ate
Sentence: Jonathan was in sync with all varities of animals and able to assisiate with them at will.
Etymology: St Frances of Assisi (who could communicate with animals) + associate
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COMMENTS:
nice twist - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:08:00
I hadn't a clue until I read your etymology. Very nice. - stache, 2008-03-28: 12:41:00
Hard for me not to vote for this one. Great minds, and all that stuff! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 23:36:00
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Zooracle
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: zho-or-ah-kil
Sentence: "The Master demands a sacrifice, David," said Harvey, his canines bared as he paced along the fence next door, "He finds your limited faith insufficient." The labrador stopped and stared through the chain links at him vacantly. David held his head in his hands. Could this be happening? Was he a zooracle or just losing his mind? Either way, he had to silence the persistent animal, so he would silence him with sacrifice. "My fealty to the dark lord will be apparent by this afternoon." He disappeared into house and grabbed his .44 caliber Bulldog revolver, and stalked to his car. The tires squealed and the Ford Galaxie sped off into the city. When the car was a waning mirage the two teenage boys stepped out from behind Sam Carr's house, cackling with laughter and holding a walkie-talkie. "That Berkowitz kid is an IDIOT!" the taller of the two said, as they walked to the black lab and unstrapped the other handset from the dogs collar.
Etymology: zoo - prefix relating to animals, oracle - a chosen person who can interpret normally unintelligible communications from non-human sources
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COMMENTS:
I considered 'oracle' as a component. I was thinking along the lines of, 'animoracle.' Nice combination. - stache, 2008-03-28: 01:27:00
oh...my...god. er, dog. - stache, 2008-03-28: 01:38:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:24:00
Wow, Banky! Very imaginative theory on the 'Son of Sam' serial killer story, (in case anyone didn't catch that), and, I might add, chillingly morbid. Great stuff. - Tigger, 2008-03-30: 03:42:00
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Petsperanto
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: pet spur an toe
Sentence: He said had a doctorate in Petsperanto, but she thought he was a quack
Etymology: esperanto, pet
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COMMENTS:
petstacular word - Nosila, 2010-06-04: 09:21:00
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Petriloquist
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: pet/ril/o/quist
Sentence: A petriloquist is an interpeter who can understand and mimic pets.
Etymology: pet + ventriloquist
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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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...
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