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DEFINITION: n An invented language similar to baby talk, used by pet owners to communicate with their pets. v. To speak to an animal using an invented language.
Verboticisms
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Embarrassinglish
Created by: Katisms1
Pronunciation: im-bare-iss-ING-lish
Sentence: As she continued to coo baby-talk into her ratty lapdog's ear, in what could only be described as fluent Embarrasinglish, he prayed for a sudden emergency that would put an end to this blind date from hell.
Etymology: embarrassing (e.g. behaviour that clearly demonstrates the now-deafening tics and tocks of one's long-neglected biologogical clock) + English
Googoologos
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: goo-guh-lue-gus
Sentence: Cynthia's husband gets so embarrassed when she starts the googoologos when they have company over at their house. Cynthia just goes into this other mode when the dog, Lucy, comes around. No matter how much he tells her how absurd she sounds, googoologos is a refined mode of communication for her and her dog. He's started to keep lucy behind a baby gate in the back bedroom when the guests are there. That way, Lucy is out-of-sight, out-of-mind, and they can have adult conversations with their guests. And no one gets embarrassed.
Etymology: Goo-Goo= baby talk + logos= words, logic
Animalingo
Created by: peterdiplaros
Pronunciation: Emphasis on the 'li'
Sentence: I made up some new animalingo today and I am going to try it out on my dog.
Etymology: Animal and lingo (language)
Dogguage
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dog/gwij
Sentence: Jenny's language of choice for her three pups was dogguage. Even though it was gobbledygook to everyone else and sounded cutsey-wutsey, her pups were bonded to her and understood every rhyming couplet of her dogguage and loved her for it.
Etymology: DOGGUAGE - noun - from DOG + LANGUAGE
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COMMENTS:
Very clever. - Mustang, 2008-08-01: 16:31:00
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Poochinese
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: pooch + in + eese
Sentence: What can I tell you, my dog only speaks poochinese, and "widdle scruffy wuffy woo" means "please do not pee on the floor" in that language.
Etymology: shweetie puppy wuppy woogums.
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COMMENTS:
like that one - w5lf9s, 2007-06-08: 15:09:00
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Furbosity
Created by: iago150
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I wish she weren't so furbose with her animals. His constant furbosity with Lassie drove his girlfriend crazy.
Etymology:
Dramaticpaws
Created by: carpefactum
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Whenever Muffy talked to her cat, it always seemed like a long dramaticpaws.
Etymology:
Mortifidoraptus
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: MORT-IH-FIE-DOE-RAP-TUSS
Sentence: Flo was a volunteer at the animal shelter and a professional dog walker. Although her new pit bull puppy looked like a naked mole rat, she was fond of showing it off in public. Her friends humored her until she was inexplicably siezed by MORTIFIDORAPTUS and began cooing and speaking in slobbering tongues to the clearly embarrased doglet. Everyone had to look away and stifle snickers. Others just walked away, while some cast aspersions at her descent into irritating anthropomorphism. Imploring her to stop had no effect - the gibberish just intensified into a pungent mishmash of ootsycutesyisms. Flo just tossed her head back indignantly and was last seen heading haughtily towards a hydrant, MORTIFIDORAPPING all the way.
Etymology: MORTIFIED:humiliated + FIDO: legendary generic verbotomistic canine-american of yore + RAPTUS: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion = MORTIFIDORAPTUS............... Variations: [ mortifidorapture, mortifidoraptism, mortifidorapmusic, mortifidoraptologist ] yadda yadda yadda
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COMMENTS:
http://www.blackstump.com.au/pets-animals.htm - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 06:21:00
Please spay or tutor your pet. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 06:59:00
Outside of a dog, a BOOK is man's best friend................................
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 07:00:00
Rin Tin Tinnitus. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 07:23:00
Rodeo Rover is now available at:
Goblertoys.com - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 07:25:00
Augiedoggie's son said:
"Father, I'm SOOOOO humiliated." - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 07:27:00
Dog-gone cute, said Germaine Shepherd to Shirley Bassett and Joe Cocker! - Nosila, 2008-08-01: 19:18:00
Muzzle Toff! - Nosila, 2008-08-02: 01:05:00
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Pettigoogoo
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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Petois
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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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-06-08: 04:52:00
Great definition remistram! Outstanding submissions already! Gonna be hard voting today.
Jabberwocky - 2007-06-08: 12:11:00
I wish I could vote for every word today
jadenguy - 2007-06-08: 12:16:00
I guess everybody's creative juices are flowing since the weekend is upon us. Contentment envelops us like a warm wind on a brisk morning stroll.
ziggy41 - 2007-06-08: 12:40:00
ahh that's got to be an exact replica of my dog in the pic!
ErWenn - 2007-06-08: 14:04:00
Holy crap, there's a lot of good words today!
Verbotomy received a very positive review today in the The Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper. The story quotes words created by Stevenson0, Clayton and Rikboyee. See more: The Globe and Mail: Getting together to make up words.
Jabberwocky - 2007-06-08: 15:18:00
figures ziggy41 would have a k9
jadenguy - 2007-06-08: 15:43:00
I want a pug but I'm often concerned about not noticing it where i walk.
texmom - 2007-06-08: 21:44:00
It really was hard to choose. Petois just had that touch of class.
administraitor - 2007-06-09: 17:58:00
Toronto’s venerable “Mop & Pail” as the paper is affectionately known, is what led me to Verbotomy on Friday. My first instinct was to submit “Doggerel” then realized that it was in no way sufficiently twisted to survive! I’m looking forward to a lotta laffs with this!
mplsbohemian - 2007-06-10: 19:58:00
Dang, I just came up with a much better word, and it's too late for me to enter it: gerbilish!
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James