Verboticisms

Created by: dochanne

Pronunciation: Ver-beh-trait

Sentence: As a self-absorbed bipedal anthropoid vertebrate Jenny found herself often unable to communicate effectively with others of her kind, largely due to her grandiose verbosity, vective and vacillation. She was thus a verbetrate and spent most of her time quakkety-yakking (but ducks were not such good listeners), gibbon-gabbing, and slither-blathering.

Etymology: Verb: doing word, such as 'speaking'; Vertebrate: animals with backbones, such as mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians, but not politicians. This group is obviously so big that the few members who are actually human are neglible. I note this word is often misspelled as 'verbetrate' by an interposition of the "b" and the "t", hence found as such in google. Betray: turn to the 'other' side, ie. talk to the animals rather than humans.. Also Verberage and of course Verbotomy.

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That's telling them! - metrohumanx, 2009-05-18: 02:15:00

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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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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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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)

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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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Teddy may have to shell out for therapy for Morris! - Nosila, 2009-05-19: 00:51:00

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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)

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: zoo-MYOO-ni-keyt. (uh-see-SEE-eyt)

Sentence: Some people looked upon Bob as the zoological equivalent of Zamenhof, {or a modern day St Francis of Assissi)zoomunicating(assissiating) with the animal world in a language he called, "Menagerese". Others, however, thought that he was nothing more than a greedy, guttural rat; or, at best, a self-deluded do-little, who needed to see a "quack" immediately.

Etymology: ZOOMUNICATE: Blend of zoo:Gk element meaning animal and communicate. QUACK: "medical charlatan, doctor (slang) short for quacksalver, from Du. kwaksalver, lit. "hawker of salve," 2. The harsh, throaty sound of a duck. ASSISSIATE: as in St Francis of Assissi:patron saint of animals; who, it is claimed, was able to talk to animals.

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I like this one almost as well as Tigger's! Maybe just one 'm' less. - stache, 2008-03-28: 01:25:00

If I have unintentiontally "stolen" or plagiarize Tigger's verbotomy: please consider "assissiate" as my verbotomy for today. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 04:13:00

(chuckle) - stache, 2008-03-28: 10:09:00

hey Ozzie - Steve0 already beat you to it with assisiate - I'm sure your very fertile mind can come up with another one though - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:18:00

why don't we go with 'Menagerese' - that's a great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 13:18:00

I think I'lI take your advice, JBW. Impossible for me not to vote for this one. "Great" minds and all that stuff! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 23:39:00

you kill me, ob. - stache, 2008-03-30: 20:50:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: virt ta prayt

Sentence: Helen could communicate with all animals. Her ability to verteprate came at an early age and served her well to interrogate the pets of crime victims, perepetrators and witnesses, as a special service to the police. It was amazing what we do and say in front of our pets because we think they won't talk. But Helen could get pets to verify alibis, deny stories and defeat many a criminal in his illegal ways. Pets told no lies nor harboured any ulterior motives for their statements. Helen only wished her gift worked on her 13 year old son, but alas that is not the way life goes!

Etymology: Vertebrate (animal having a having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium) & Prate ( idle or foolish and irrelevant talk; speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)

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COMMENTS:

Eggzellunt!! Furshur. - Mustang, 2009-05-18: 07:54:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: critr-patr

Sentence: Angelina had a tough time communicating with most adults but had a gift of critterpatter, a unique ability to communicate with creatures of all kinds.

Etymology: 'Critter' (creature) 'patter' (talk)

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COMMENTS:

cute word - mweinmann, 2009-05-18: 22:44:00

super - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-22: 13:12:00

nice - galwaywegian, 2010-06-04: 03:32:00

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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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great word stache - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 13:54:00

thanks jw - stache, 2008-03-28: 17:51:00

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Created by: kasmin

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