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DEFINITION: n An invented language similar to baby talk, used by pet owners to communicate with their pets. v. tr. To speak to an animal using such a language.
Verboticisms
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Dogguage
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
Doggatory
Created by: imashelcha
Pronunciation: Like "derrogatory", only condenced.
Sentence:
Etymology: From derrogatory, applied to dogs.
Poodelingo
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /pood-el-ling'-goh/
Sentence: If the way Patti's dog kisses her on the mouth doesn't make you feel nauseous, her cutesy poodelingo probably will.
Etymology: poodle [poodel] - (German, pudel - short for pudelhund) + lingo - language or speech, esp. if strange or foreign (a corrupt form of the Latin, lingua)
Petois
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: PET-wah
Sentence: Bob was zoetic in petois from Foxxidental to Pigeon Henglish.
Etymology: PATOIS: "A provincial dialect" - from O Fr "patoier" to handle clumsily, to paw. Perhaps imitative of the sound made by a paw. 2. Non standard language. & PET 3. ZOETIC (zoo & poetic) 4. FOXXIDENTAL (fox & Occidental- an invented language)
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COMMENTS:
I was going to use this word. - xirtam, 2007-12-27: 13:29:00
love zoetic - Jabberwocky, 2007-12-27: 17:42:00
I will use this word every time the baby talk to a cat is used ... short, sweet, and right on the meaning. Great creation! - silveryaspen, 2007-12-27: 19:21:00
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Primapratil
Created by: Niktionary
Pronunciation: prim-uh-prat-ul
Sentence: My sister does nothing but primapratil to her dog, it's a wonder he doesn't doesn't tell her to "shutty-whaty-uppy-wuppy."
Etymology: primative+prattle
Pipi
Created by: asdfg
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
t - asdfg, 2007-12-27: 15:18:00
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Dialicked
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dy a likt
Sentence: She had evolved her own special dialicked...her dog responded by planting great sloppy kisses on her face.
Etymology: dialogue & licked
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COMMENTS:
delicktable! - galwaywegian, 2007-12-27: 12:44:00
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Aniaby
Created by: freakystyley
Pronunciation: Any-A-B
Sentence: If Susan starts Aniaby-ing the dog again, I'm gonna shave its hair tonight!
Etymology: Animal + Babying
Goonygooage
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation: goony+goo+age
Sentence: Heck man her goonygooage is taking all my time. I'm going to through that mut out the window.
Etymology:
Dogalect
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: dawg-uh-lekt
Sentence: Tom had a distinct dogalect when he used to communicate with his dog. And somehow the she seemed to understand, although everybody else thought he was quite insane.
Etymology: Dog: a domesticated canid. + Dialect: a special variety of a language.
