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DEFINITION: n. Embarrassing pet behavior; may be perfectly natural for the pet, but often makes humans feel self-conscious or ill at ease. v. To be embarrassed by your pet's beahviour
Verboticisms
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Pawfensive
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: pah-FENS-iv
Sentence: Woofie doesn't mean to be pawfensive, he LIKES you!
Etymology: paw, offensive
Petified
Created by: vermeulenstevos
Pronunciation: Pet-tea-fied
Sentence: Every time my girlfriend comes over I'm petified that Max might jump her
Etymology: Pet-animal kept at your home and cared for petrified-being scared
Petpesterous
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: pet-pess-ter-us
Sentence: lilly was shite on one side of her usually overly made up face after snuffles petpesterous behaviour. Snuffles was realising that Maybellines beige fantasy number five was much tastier that Aunty May's Ivory dust, by yardley
Etymology: pet- domestic animal pest - a living thing that irritates, annoys or damages us- pronoun, first person plural
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COMMENTS:
I meant white not shite, though it does still retain meaning. freudian slip maybe, anyway i didn't mean to be rude. Sorry. - suzanne, 2007-04-27: 10:48:00
My dog is guilty of shite, a.k.a., An Inconvenient Poop that occurs in the neighbor's yard, in front of the neighbor, which inspired this definition. - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-27: 11:05:00
How about adding preposterous to your etymology? - petaj, 2007-04-27: 21:04:00
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Dogamantitas
Created by: LogoEggoGurl
Pronunciation: Dog/Ga/Man/Ti/Tas
Sentence: wow that women has dogamantitas!
Etymology: i is a made to explain that it is a survare disease and its cant we cured ( it is only exposied to ure body when u r by a dog or u lick a dog or com in sexual contact with a dog this cant happen with a cat!)
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COMMENTS:
wow domantitas id hate to get that!!!!1 - LogoEggoGurl, 2007-04-29: 15:16:00
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Fauxpaw
Created by: daisy
Pronunciation: fo-pah
Sentence: Yes, Mr. Whiskers has a little problem with the humping, pardon his fauxpaw.
Etymology:
Dogma
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: dawg-muh
Sentence: My pet's dogma caused my guests to feel quite uneased.
Etymology: Dog (standard pet) + Dogma (system of principles or standards)
Zoomiliate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: zoo mil ee ayt
Sentence: Although Andrea was very fond of her new love, John, a rich doctor (her Mother would be delighted), she was afraid of going to his place for the first time. He had loads of animals and she feared that they might zoomiliate her, because she was not fond of them and they might sense it. Her worst phobias were realized that first night when the dogs dogged her, the cats were purrfectly awful to her, the hamsters hampered her, the budgies bugged her, the rabbits were rabid to her, the parrot parodied her, the ferrets fretted her, the turtles left her shell-shocked, the horses gave her nightmares, the cows bullied her, the goats and sheep treated her baaaadly and the chickens were fowl to her. She ran off never to return. Dr.John Doolittle then turned to his flock and thanked them for getting rid of the gold-digger!
Etymology: Zoo (Menagerie;group of animals housed in a place) & Humiliate (embarrass;mortify;shame)
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COMMENTS:
daaaaaamn, you're good - galwaywegian, 2009-11-13: 04:22:00
do you guys play Verbotomy at 4:00 in the morning while I am still sleeping? - mweinmann, 2009-11-13: 07:42:00
By the way, I love your word...you seem to be in "full gear" while I am not yet awake! - mweinmann, 2009-11-13: 07:43:00
Being on Mountain Standard Time, I get the new word at 10:00 each night...so it's usually the last thing I do before I fall into the arms of Morpheus! - Nosila, 2009-11-13: 12:09:00
You did it again - another fantastic word and sentence! I'm on easter standard time and can't stay awake till midnight to get the new word. - splendiction, 2009-11-13: 19:50:00
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Fauxpet
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: foe-pet
Sentence: as i entered the kitchen i found Mr Tibbly committing yet another fauxpet
Etymology: pet, faux pas
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COMMENTS:
must get up earlier...great word! - Alchemist, 2007-04-27: 06:21:00
yeah.....a real crowd pleaser :) - rikboyee, 2007-04-28: 20:52:00
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Immoranimalistic
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: "immora" like in immoral, "animal" like in animal, "istic" like in minimalistic.
Sentence: You've got such an immoranimalistic dog.
Etymology: immoral + animal + adjectifiction = immoranimalistic.
Birdition
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: burd/i/shun
Sentence: I always feel like I'm in birdition when I visit Jill's house. She has canarys that fly free and deposit loads of bird crap and feathers on me.
Etymology: bird + perdition (anguish, nether world)
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COMMENTS:
It's brave soul who walks the road to birdition. Take a raincoat. - petaj, 2007-04-27: 21:02:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes.
Thank you purpleartichokes! ~ James
Yes the rumors are true. This week we are offering the The Verbotomy Cup as prize for the top player of the week. See details on the Verbotomy Blog ~ James
Jabberwocky - 2007-04-27: 12:54:00
Hi Verbotomy, Those cups (mugs)are really great. Would it be possible for any of us to purchase ones even if we don't win?
Hi Jabberwocky, Glad you like the Verbotomy Cup! It is our wampeter, and as such I don't think we would sell it, because that might turn it into a MacGuffin. ~ James
Is it our waxing or waning wampeter? What's the other one (since a karass always has exactly two wampeters)?
I believe it is still waxing. And think that Dan Pink's right brain is the other wampeter. ~ James
mana1066 - 2007-05-06: 23:04:00
some of that went right over my head. whine! i want a cup too!
Quit a tail from the punster extrordinaire! Poor FIDO is the Lee Harvey Oswald of doggie misbehavior.
Today's definition was suggested by purpleartichokes. Thank you purpleartichokes. ~ James