Verboticisms

Created by: debgibson

Pronunciation:

Sentence: He cringed at the petalect in evidence around the veterinarian's waiting room.

Etymology: pet plus dialect

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: pet-twa

Sentence: Madeleine took her tiny dog off to Paris in her handbag and spoke to it lovingly in petois to stop it barking on the Metro. It was a curious mix of French and doggy noises.

Etymology: pet + patois (non-standard speech/creole)

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COMMENTS:

good one. - texmom, 2007-06-08: 07:19:00

Excellent word petaj - hmm... I wonder why you have pet in your pseudonym - perhaps petios is your second language - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-08: 09:05:00

today is a day when good words truely run a plenty. i wish i'd've come up with something this good. stupid television filling my brain with laughter and not verbotomies. - jadenguy, 2007-06-08: 09:37:00

You're just lucky I work all day--that word was my first instinct! - mplsbohemian, 2007-06-08: 20:15:00

petois occurred to me straight away when i checked the cartoon before leaving work. Then I had to go to tennis and didn't get home for a couple of hours, so I was hoping that no one else would think of it. - petaj, 2007-06-08: 22:18:00

I'm embarrassed to admit that my only second language is verbotomese. Typically in Australia, most of us have not become fluent in anything but English. - petaj, 2007-06-08: 22:29:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: pet spur ann toe

Sentence: Dr. Dooless spoke fluent petsperanto

Etymology: esperanto, pet

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Created by: Wordotwist

Pronunciation: Pet o lish

Sentence: When I first came to the US,I found it far easier to understand the petolish people used to speak to their pets,then the English they spoke to me.

Etymology: A combination of pet and lish as in English,Spanish,yidish etc.Joined by the o sound commonly used by owners in words addressed to pets.

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: FER-buhl

Sentence: Dana's furbling to her shar-pei was beginning to get on my nerves. "Who's a puppy-wuppy? Who's my shaggy-waggy? Who's my woggy-doggie?" Sheesh!

Etymology: fur + burble

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COMMENTS:

Another cute word! And "Who's my shar-peisy daisy?" - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-08: 06:50:00

And sounds like "verbal". - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-08: 07:44:00

shaggy-waggy - dangerous phrase for a Friday - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-08: 12:53:00

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: cri-ter-frank-a

Sentence: He used to love sitting on his favorite bench in the park - until SHE started showing up each morning muttering in critterfranca to her poodle.

Etymology: critter (animal/pet) + franca (from lingua franca - any lanugage used as a way of speaking to others who speak different languages)

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: KRIH-tuhr-jihb-uhr

Sentence: Alex's frustration at his girlfriend's constant crittergibber to her fish was no so much about the noise per se, as the fact that she was truly unaware the fish couldn't reply.

Etymology: critter + gibberish. The word for this definition, ideally, is really cutesy.

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Created by: jetty1

Pronunciation: petti-goo-goo

Sentence: My pittbull, Spike turns into jello, when ever I talk to him in pettigoogoo.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

is that the way they talk on radio ga ga? - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-08: 12:45:00

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Created by: shaunconlin

Pronunciation: schmoo-booze

Sentence: The Consumer Electronics Show wrap up dinner is a great place to schmoobooze.

Etymology: schmooze + booze, i.e. the act of attending corporate events, trade shows or expositions normaly associated with "schmoozing" except solely for the purpose of making a dent in the ubiquitous "open bar." Also, schmooboozing, schmooboozed, schmooboozer

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2. The beverages found at the "open bar" of corporate events or expositions. Schmooboozer: One who schmooboozes. - shaunconlin, 2007-06-08: 13:30:00

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Created by: happyhippy

Pronunciation: u say it how u spell it!

Sentence: snuggleswap-- chosen becuase when talking to a pet in this way u want to feel phisical closeness with the animal, or to snuggle. also the swap part of the word is because, aswell as the human urge to understand things, for instace the pet's mind, but also as u want to let the paet know what u r thing,in short u want to swap secrets, so therefore came about the word - snuggleswap

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