Verboticism: Featherbrain
DEFINITION: n. A person who has the highly developed ability to communicate on a direct level with any type of animal, except for human beings. v. To talk to animals because you know that communicating with people is useless.
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Drewlittle
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: droo-lit-l
Sentence: Andrew is not very comfortable talking to people. He would prefer chattering with squirrels or honking with geese. He is so good at mimicking animals that you would think he knew what they were saying. His few friends have taken to calling him Dr. Drewlittle.
Etymology: Drew (nickname for Andrew) + Dr. Dolittle (central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting, known for his ability to talk to animals in their native language)
Communicat
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kəmyoōnəkat
Sentence: After seeing Cats 37 times Alley felt that she could communicat. She felt that she could speak to her feline friends in their native tongue. She was dissappointed when the guy at the piercing shop politely told her that he was fresh out of implantable whiskers. When she tried to communicat with her human friends they collectively decided that their eccentric chum had gone over the edge. Even though Tom was a bit turned on when Alley started licking herself and purring, he joined in on the planning for an intervention.
Etymology: commune (feel in close spiritual contact with) + communicate (share or exchange information) + cat (a small domesticated carnivorous mammal with soft fur, a short snout, and retractile claws)
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COMMENTS:
smart word, twisted sentence...love it - DrWebster111, 2009-05-18: 22:10:00
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Featherbrain
Created by: theCountess
Pronunciation: feather-brain
Sentence: Boring old definition of featherbrain: an emptyheaded person Verboticized new definition of featherbrain: an emptyheaded person who uses only fowl language
Etymology: Featherhead: noun, Old English; to have feathers for brains
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COMMENTS:
It must be fowl play.. or maybe vowel play :P - dochanne, 2009-05-18: 03:19:00
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Givenuponhumanism
Created by: 1245678
Pronunciation: giv-en-up-on-hue-man-is-um
Sentence: if you cant communicate with other fellow human beings you suffer with givenuponhumanism.
Etymology:
Verbetrate
Created by: dochanne
Pronunciation: Ver-beh-trait
Sentence: As a self-absorbed bipedal anthropoid vertebrate Jenny found herself often unable to communicate effectively with others of her kind, largely due to her grandiose verbosity, vective and vacillation. She was thus a verbetrate and spent most of her time quakkety-yakking (but ducks were not such good listeners), gibbon-gabbing, and slither-blathering.
Etymology: Verb: doing word, such as 'speaking'; Vertebrate: animals with backbones, such as mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians, but not politicians. This group is obviously so big that the few members who are actually human are neglible. I note this word is often misspelled as 'verbetrate' by an interposition of the "b" and the "t", hence found as such in google. Betray: turn to the 'other' side, ie. talk to the animals rather than humans.. Also Verberage and of course Verbotomy.
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COMMENTS:
That's telling them! - metrohumanx, 2009-05-18: 02:15:00
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Zoociate
Created by: dennisrussis
Pronunciation: zu-shi-eit
Sentence: He tried to explain something extremely simple, but a man looked like it was beyond his comprehension. What more could he desire? It was simpler to ZOOCIATE with a dog: understand everthing, but can't talk.
Etymology: zoo + associate
Petagogue
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: PET ah gog
Sentence: The reason Ann Noy talks with animals is that no people WANT to talk with her. She is a petagogue, spewing her dog-ma all the time. She talks until she's horse. People are too cowed by her obviously superior intelligence to ox her what she's talking about, and it's too difficult to ferret out the meaning. Everyone ducks when they see her coming, and they just want to bat her away. So she long ago gave up trying to figure out why people were so catty about her, and retreated, tortoiselike, to her cocoon to live out her days as an animal whisperer.
Etymology: pet + pedagogue (a person who teaches, instructs, or talks in a manner that is excessively dogmatic, shows off his or her learnedness or overemphasizes minor details)
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COMMENTS:
Hart-felt story...porpoiseful and not boaring! - Nosila, 2010-06-04: 23:55:00
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Chickchat
Created by: clarice
Pronunciation: chick chat
Sentence: Clarice never believed talking to plants would make them grow faster and healthier. However, she would always chickchat away at the chicken farm. ---- another sentence ---- Clarice and her canary chickchatted all afternoon.
Etymology: chick (young bird especially of domestic fowl, slang for youg ladies) + chat (an informal conversation, birds having a chattering call)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-06-04: 05:47:00
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Assisiate
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: a/see/see/ate
Sentence: Jonathan was in sync with all varities of animals and able to assisiate with them at will.
Etymology: St Frances of Assisi (who could communicate with animals) + associate
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COMMENTS:
nice twist - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-28: 11:08:00
I hadn't a clue until I read your etymology. Very nice. - stache, 2008-03-28: 12:41:00
Hard for me not to vote for this one. Great minds, and all that stuff! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-28: 23:36:00
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