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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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Verbetrate
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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COMMENTS:
That's telling them! - metrohumanx, 2009-05-18: 02:15:00
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Espmamallizer
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: E.S.P.-mam-ah-lize-er
Sentence: Whenever Gertrude wanted, she could turn on her Espmamallizer and talk to any animal. She somehow knew when they were quacking up!
Etymology: E.S.P- Communication or perception by means other than the physical senses. [e(xtra)s(ensory) p(erception).] Mamal-(I removed one M for Mammal):Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia. Mamallizer: A person that can instictively talk to animals of all types...even the spineless :)
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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Petagogue
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: PET ah gog
Sentence: The reason Ann Noy talks with animals is that no people WANT to talk with her. She is a petagogue, spewing her dog-ma all the time. She talks until she's horse. People are too cowed by her obviously superior intelligence to ox her what she's talking about, and it's too difficult to ferret out the meaning. Everyone ducks when they see her coming, and they just want to bat her away. So she long ago gave up trying to figure out why people were so catty about her, and retreated, tortoiselike, to her cocoon to live out her days as an animal whisperer.
Etymology: pet + pedagogue (a person who teaches, instructs, or talks in a manner that is excessively dogmatic, shows off his or her learnedness or overemphasizes minor details)
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COMMENTS:
Hart-felt story...porpoiseful and not boaring! - Nosila, 2010-06-04: 23:55:00
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Zoociate
Created by: dennisrussis
Pronunciation: zu-shi-eit
Sentence: He tried to explain something extremely simple, but a man looked like it was beyond his comprehension. What more could he desire? It was simpler to ZOOCIATE with a dog: understand everthing, but can't talk.
Etymology: zoo + associate
Ostrichize
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: ostrich-size
Sentence: Jennifre, engaged deep in a coversation with a snow leopard at the zoo, ignored the sneers and giggles of people passing by. The cat-whisperer, ostrichized from society, knew that her feline friends were her true companions
Etymology: Ostrich + Ostracize
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COMMENTS:
Yes, her hippie parents named her Jennifre. - youmustvotenato, 2011-10-21: 10:27:00
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Featherbrain
Created by: theCountess
Pronunciation: feather-brain
Sentence: Boring old definition of featherbrain: an emptyheaded person Verboticized new definition of featherbrain: an emptyheaded person who uses only fowl language
Etymology: Featherhead: noun, Old English; to have feathers for brains
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COMMENTS:
It must be fowl play.. or maybe vowel play :P - dochanne, 2009-05-18: 03:19:00
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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
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.
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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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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