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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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Fur pas
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ferr-pah
Sentence: His dog burying its face into his new girlfriends groin was an embarrassing Fur Pas
Etymology: Fur, Faux Pas
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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Decorbum
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: deck/or/bum
Sentence: After a healthy bout of bottom sniffing and leg hugging, Amanda finally managed to persuade Rex to let her girlfriend enter the apartment. Whilst she made coffee for them both, Rex displayed great decorbum as he gave his balls a thorough licking.
Etymology: decorum (good manners) + bum (your rear end)
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COMMENTS:
OMG, that sentence is so funny!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-04-27: 07:56:00
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Impupriety
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɪmpʌˈpɹaɪəti/
Sentence: Impupriety is in the eye of the beholder; I knew a girl who was disturbed by the mere sight of an animal licking itself.
Etymology: From impropriety + pup
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COMMENTS:
Rejected verbotomies: faux paw, animalgarity, wooffrontery, pet peeve, and petrageousness - ErWenn, 2007-04-27: 09:18:00
They join my rejections: mispuphaviour, jackassery, and sheepdogish and the extremely long and ridiculous shamefacedlovebirding. - petaj, 2007-04-27: 21:00:00
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Petifoul
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: pet/i/fowl
Sentence: Fred's dog, Fido, always sniffs, licks and slobbers when he meets people. Fido is a petifoul. Anybody who has been petifouled, hates petifoulers.
Etymology: pet + foul
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COMMENTS:
Poor Fido's really copping a hammering today. Does anyone actually know someone with a dog called Fido? - petaj, 2007-04-27: 21:31:00
I know someone with a phone called fido... - wordmeister, 2007-04-29: 06:03:00
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Chewmiliated
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: choo mil ee ay ted
Sentence: When Hugo brought his puppy home, everyone thought that it was adorable. As time went by though, it developed a bad habit of gnawing on leather goods, particularily shoes. Hugo was chewmiliated to find that when he held an anniversary party for his parents that the dog had destroyed all the guests' shoes left at the front door. Shredded beyond recognition, all that was left was a pile unwearable footwear. That dog had sole alright...
Etymology: Chew (biting and grinding in your mouth)& Humiliated (embarrassed by;mortified;made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride)
Fauxpaw
Created by: daisy
Pronunciation: fo-pah
Sentence: Yes, Mr. Whiskers has a little problem with the humping, pardon his fauxpaw.
Etymology:
Petpeeved
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: pet PEEVD
Sentence: Kitty was really petpeeved about her dog's behavior whenever people would come to visit. He growled at men and was rovereager to "greet" all the women. He petstered them until they felt quite roverwhelmed.
Etymology: pet + peeved (bothered, annoyed); a play on "pet peeve"
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COMMENTS:
dog-gone good word...loved rovereager/roverwhelmed! - Nosila, 2009-11-13: 12:11:00
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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