Verboticisms

Created by: Robyn

Pronunciation: GOO-goop-et

Sentence: "Es dat mummy's widdle puddy tat? Yes hur es! Yes hur es!" Ever since Sara got a baby kitten, she stopped speaking standard English and devloved into fluent googoopet.

Etymology: Goo - glue or sticky substance. Goop - gluey substance Pet - companion animal.

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: pooch u geez

Sentence: When Maria cuddled her dog, she spoke fluent Poochuguese. She switched to Felinese when talking to her cat and Pintoguese when talking to her pony.

Etymology: Pooch (pet dog) & Portuguese (Iberian Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil; Portuguese Water Hound, a breed of domesticated dog from the Algarve region of Portugal)

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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: 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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like that one - w5lf9s, 2007-06-08: 15:09:00

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Created by: Rhyme79

Pronunciation: sp-oil-sp-eel

Sentence: Mariah's husband says that one day the dog will tell her to shut up with the spoilspiel and hand her a dictionary. Aww Arabella arhhy arey aww, said Minnie to her beloved pooch.

Etymology: Spoil- pamper or overindulge. Spiel- glib speech.

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: geek/in/eez

Sentence: As far as after school jobs go, Sheila was happy enough at PetsRUs. She didn't really mind the poop runs, or even hosing down the cages. There were days however, when she felt if one more potential buyer stood at the puppy window tapping and speaking geekinese, that she would definitely fill out an app over at Orange Julius!

Etymology: geek: A person with an unusual or odd personality. ese: Suffix meaning the language or dialect of.

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COMMENTS:

OMG talk about Pulp Friction...at least at OJ they only pups she'd see would be Pizza Dogs! - Nosila, 2008-08-03: 00:51:00

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Created by: Borogove

Pronunciation: ling-wa-pe-ta

Sentence: Her linguapeta differed when she approached the ugly pug.

Etymology: From 'lingua', latin for language and pet

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: skwēkənēz

Sentence: Julie had her own language for communicating with her Pookie. Her boyfriend refers to it as Squeakinese. Whenever she gets started he has to leave the room to keep his ears from bleeding.

Etymology: squeak (a short, high-pitched sound or cry)+ Pekinese (a lapdog of a short-legged breed with long hair and a snub nose, originally brought to Europe from the Summer Palace at Beijing [Peking] in 1860)

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COMMENTS:

nice - galwaywegian, 2010-01-04: 09:36:00

clever...best one today!! - mweinmann, 2010-01-04: 20:14:00

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Created by: Sed8ed

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Created by: hatman003

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Sentence: Susie constantly talked in Prelg to her pet rocks and octopi despite their disgust

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