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DEFINITION: v. To leave your pet, child or lover in the care of a friend or relative who teaches them a stupid trick or bad habit. n. A stupid trick or bad habit learned from a caregiver.
Verboticisms
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Neglidance
Created by: nickmarziani
Pronunciation: Neg-lah-dance
Sentence: Karen, look at the neglidance little Susie is doing. Your bastard brother must have let her watch MTV again.
Etymology: Negligence + Dance, of course.
Aninnoyance
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: ani-noi-ance
Sentence: The whole family was frustrated when they found that their parrot suddenly had a bad case of tourrets syndrome. This aninnoyance must have been tought by grandpa while the family was on vacation in Australia.
Etymology: animal + annoyance
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COMMENTS:
Very inventive sentene and word! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 19:21:00
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Nannierism
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: nan/ni/riz/um
Sentence: We just put our three-year olds ability to swear with an accent down to another nannierism learned from his live-in babysitter.
Etymology: NANNIERISM - noun - from NANNY (a person employed to care for children in a household) + MANNERISM (Exaggerated, or affected style, or habit, as in dress, or speech)
Animmorality
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: ann - immore - ahl - itee
Sentence: If it was possible for an animal to be immoral, so it was with my Parrot Belvidere. After we left him in the care of our friends John and Marcee, he came back to us with a foul mouth, lewd behavior and a new vocabulary that would make even George Carlin cringe (if he were still alive). In fact, Belvidere started to say things like "Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town"....and he truly became the monkey on our backs, the finest example of animmorality you could ever find....@$$$$@!!e3 and everything in between to you pal!!!
Etymology: This word starts with Animal and is joined with immorality (the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct).
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COMMENTS:
good blend! - Nosila, 2008-12-10: 21:38:00
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-12-11: 05:54:00
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Prankma
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: prank-mar
Sentence: Bonny was starting to suspect that her mother was behaving subversively when babysitting her toddlers. Every time they stayed at Nanna's they would spend the following days saying that singlets were uncool, only dweebs wore hats and that making them tidy up their toys was inhibiting their creative development. Bonny was ready to confront Nanna about the prankmas.
Etymology: prank (joke, jape, trick) + grandma (an overly put upon family member who often cares for their grandchildren)
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COMMENTS:
welcome back petaj - great little story - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-26: 13:14:00
Good comeback! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-26: 16:13:00
Clever interplay! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-26: 19:25:00
thanks for the welcome back - although I did verbotomize a couple of days back it has been weeks since i played regularly. - petaj, 2008-02-27: 05:29:00
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Nipinthebeak
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: nip - in - the - beek
Sentence: Someone's in the kitchen with Mynah! Someone taught him to say "*****". Help! I don't know how to stop Mynah from saying that! How do I nipinthebeak?
Etymology: Play on "Nip in the Bud" which means to stop it before it gets worse. Beak: bird's bill, slang term for mouth. Obviously, the cartoon inspried this bit of nonesense.
Swindlebreaker
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: swin/dil/brake/ur
Sentence: Joey was supposed to keep our puppy on a rigorous diet while we were away but instead fed it junk food which lead to uncontrolable farting. Henceforth we think of Joey as a swindlebreaker.
Etymology: swindle (take advantage of, cheat) + break wind
Chaffectation
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: Chaffe ektation
Sentence: Willow was never convinced that allowing her brother Mikey to look after the parrot was a great idea, but with a day to go before the family holiday she was out of options. Alas when they returned her fears has been realised: Silver the parrot had taken to uttering "Seeds of dissent! !@#$ you hippy!" during her yoga classes. She cringed as she imagined what other chaffectations may be lurking in Silvers vocabulary.
Etymology: Chaffe(1): Tender lesions that develop through abrasion of the epidermis. Chaffe(2): Annoying behaviours/happenstance that 'grates' on your nerves. Affectation: a new and/or unnatural behavoural tendency.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James