Verboticisms

Created by: sanssouci

Pronunciation: pet pat wah

Sentence: "Any pet lovers out there fancy brushing up on their Petpatois? Would you love to be able to communiate with your four legged friend effectivly? Well a new evening class is begining next week on Thursday evening, Petptois for Everyone starts at 8pm in the village hall"

Etymology: pet 1. any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately. patois 1. a clumsy language 2.a regional form of a language,differing from the standard, literary form of the language. 3.a rural or provincial form of speech.

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: ZOO-yak

Sentence: Bob preached that by means of Zooyak, his zoomenhoff-like language, the wolf shall lie down with the lamb.

Etymology: Blend of ZOO: (Gk) an animal & YAK (slang): to talk, chatter

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COMMENTS:

BOOYAH for ZOOYAK and Preacher Bob! You've outdone yourself, Ozziebob. - metrohumanx, 2008-08-01: 06:49:00

Very good, critterally speaking. - Mustang, 2008-08-01: 16:32:00

Oogachukka for zooyak, Bob, wolves love ewe! - Nosila, 2008-08-01: 19:10:00

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Created by: Alicia

Pronunciation: Boop/ee/scoop

Sentence: Sarah bent down for her dog. She Boopyscooped it.

Etymology: Boopy: Like A Weird Kind Of Language Scoop: Scooped The Dog Up.

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Created by: celan1

Pronunciation: poo kee speel

Sentence: Her elaborate pookiespiel with Fido churned my H. pylori.

Etymology: Pookie + Spiel

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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

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: lin goo goo

Sentence: When Lisa talked to her pup, Pugsley, she always spoke in lingoogoo. It was a made-up baby talk that made her sound like an idiot and embarrassed the heck out of poor Pugsley, especially in front of the other dogs.

Etymology: Lingo (a characteristic language of a particular group) & Goo Goo (what people say in baby talk)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dog/gwij

Sentence: The 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: dog + language

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COMMENTS:

Did they speak in doggerel? - Jabberwocky, 2007-06-08: 08:58:00

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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: Brodobaggins

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: pet ant ikayt

Sentence: Petula had gone to her Petiotrist many times to try and petanticate better with her pet pug, Petunia. Though a petulant pet, Petunia perpetually tried to pet peeve Petula by pretending not to understand her peticular speech patterns. Finally, Petula put herself in her pooch's persona and put out many puppy perks for Petunia. Amazing what prolific pet perks and persuasive pet lingo can do to persuade a pooch to perform with perfection!

Etymology: Pet (a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement) & Pedantic( marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects) & Communicate (transmit thoughts or feelings or information)

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