Category: Verboticisms

DEFINITION: v. To prevent someone from participating in an undesired activity by engaging them in another activity which makes it impossible to do the first. n. Two things cannot be done at the same time.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Slyversionary: /sly ver shun ary/ Sandra kept Simon’s activities on a short leash. Whenever he wanted to do something she did not approve of, she would create a slyversionary attack. For instance, major sporting events on television were missed because that darn tv “acted up again” or “the cable was out”. How could he join his buddies hunting when his rifle and hunting license were not to be found anywhere? You get the picture, but Simon failed to notice the coincidence of these events. Etymology: Sly (marked by skill in deception) & Diversionary (an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack;a tactic that diverts attention)

Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Slyversionary:

splendiction, 2009-07-02: 21:21:00
the best word today! Very sly!

Etaskulate: /e-task-u-late/ Jenny had such control over Joe that she could easily etaskulate him. A planned night out at the pub with Joe’s friends, or a Saturday golf game was always interrupted by Jenny’s sudden urge to have him learn knitting, or help her sort her fashion magazine collection.

Etymology: ETASKULATE – VERB – from EMASCULATE (to castrate; to deprive of strength, or vigor; to weaken) + TASK
Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Etaskulate:

mrskellyscl, 2009-07-02: 06:05:00
Hysterical. Great word.

splendiction, 2009-07-02: 21:22:00
I agree – hilarious!

Procedo: /prow SEE due/ Sam’s parents accomplished the amazing! He made his bed, vacuumed the downstairs, took out the garbage – all before breakfast! The procedo was that he couldn’t eat until his chores were done.

Etymology: From PROCEDURE and DO – to do a set activity before another activity. Created by: splendiction.

Comments on Procedo:

Nosila, 2009-07-02: 13:20:00
A perfect placebo

splendiction, 2009-07-04: 21:23:00
– of course I would never give out a real procedo like this!

Distractivity: /dis-trac-tiv-i-ty/ Jill learned to keep a distractivity in her purse for social situations with Jack. If he became bored, he would get into trouble. At her mother’s dinner party she heard him start a lively conversation about the elections with Uncle Will. Quickly, she pulled a Game Boy out of her purse and sent him into the game room to wait for dinner. Etymology: distract: divert attention + activity: an educational aid designed to stimulate learning through hands-on experience Created by: mrskellyscl.

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DEFINITION: n. An ingrained habit which is so entrenched in individual’s personality that they practically have an identity crisis if anyone tries to change it. v. To try to modify a person’s instinctive behavior and/or unconscious habits.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Transfurants: /trans fur antz/ No matter how often Sophie got after her unemployed boyfriend Sid to clean the house, he acted and looked like a three-toed sloth and actually made a worse mess. He slept 20 hours a day and despite her transfurants, he never got anything done. One day, she came home from work to find he was gone. When he returned 2 hours later, he had gone to see The Transfurmers at the cinema and still got no housework done. She was furious fur that and was later convicted of manslother. Etymology: Transference ((psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst;the act of transfering something from one form to another) & Fur (dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals) & Rants ( a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion;pompous or pretentious talk or writing;talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner)

Created by: Nosila.

Impulsonality: /Im pulse SON a li tee/ His impulsonality remained constant through his adulthood. At any social gathering he’d end up laughing hysterically, uncontrollably, at the funny mistakes of others. His laughing spasms were so unique and funny in themselves, friends and family would deliberately set them going by telling one of the well-known stories. Attempts to calm and quiet his raucous laughing fits were all unsuccessful as his laughs would turn into angry roars. His roars were as loud as his laughs, but frightening. It was best to keep him happy. Etymology: From: IMPULSE and PERSONALITY. Created by: splendiction.

Comments on Impulsonality:

Nosila, 2009-07-02: 02:43:00
good word

Propensidensity: /prəpensədensitē/ Tomtom is a drummer, not by occupation but by avocation. He drums on his desk. He drums on his steering wheel. Air drumming puts holding hands with his wife out of the question. She has tried to alter his propensidensity but has given up. To save her own sanity she has replaced most of the furniture in their house with padded versions. Etymology: propensity (an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way) + Density (the degree of compactness of a substance) Created by: artr.

Alterigor: /al-ter-EE-gor/ Natasha wanted her fiancé, Rudy, to be more upbeat and have a more pleasant nature so she embarked on a campaign she called alerigor, hoping in time to make him over to match her idea of the perfect husband. Etymology: Blend of alter and Igor Created by: Mustang.

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DEFINITION: v. To unintentionally encourage bad behavior by responding to it in a manner that incites even worse behavior. n. A response designed to stop bad behavior, which paradoxically produces more of it.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Negatentional: /neg-a-ten-shen-al/ As a teacher, Mary knew that negatentional responses were equal to posintentional ones to the kids who acted up to get her attention, although the results were disastrous for her classroom management. She soon realized that by nagging Kevin the same result would happen, Kevin would do the opposite of what she wanted to get a response from her. She decided to ignore the inappropriate behavior and reward him for proper behavior, just as she would her kindergarten children, in order for him to get posattention from her. Etymology: negative: unfavorable or disconfirming + intentional: done deliberately + attention: notice or recognition. Teachers and trainers understand that to some children or animals negative attention is just as good as positive attention because it gives them the reward of recognition and response. Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Negatentional:

Nosila, 2009-06-30: 17:31:00
Do I not lie it? Negatory! Good word.

Disbehave: /disbihāv/ When Barny thinks he is being nagged, he is sure to disbehave. Etymology: dis (act or speak in a disrespectful way) + behave (fail to conduct oneself in a way that is acceptable to others; behave badly) Created by: artr.

Pacifry: /pass i FRY/ Blaze was having a small melt down when the ice cream truck sped by their home too quickly. His parents inadvertently pacifried him with the comment that ice cream from ice cream trucks, “is bad for you anyway.” Blaze’s melt down progressed into a full blown explosive fit of stamping, arm-flinging, and fiery-hot tearful cries: “BUD I WANNED NICE-CREAM!” Etymology: A blend of PACIFY and FRY, overdo to the point of ruin. Created by: splendiction.

Moregramming: /mor gram ming/ Wanda whined, “You are such a loser, I don’t know what I saw in you! Loser, loser!” To which Ralphie replied, “You keep calling me that, but I’m not a loser! You keep moregramming me with that title.” After which he stormed out of the house, went to the store and bought himself the Powerball Lottery ticket which became the single winner of $280 million, U.S.! Etymology: More (comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent) & Programming (a learning process in which an organism’s behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment) Created by: Nosila.

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DEFINITION: v. To use animal training techniques to improve and direct the behavior of other people. n. A technique which uses the principles of animal training to solve a human behavioral riddle.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Homesticate: /hoh-mes-ti-kate/ In most relationships, the woman has to homesticate the male so he can function in modern society.

Etymology: homo sapiens (the modern species of humans) + domesticate (to tame an animal to live with humans); therefore, homesticate (to tame a human to live with humans)

Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Homesticate:

mweinmann, 2009-06-30: 08:02:00
good play on the human condition….

Petiquette: /pet – eh – kit/ Marjorie used petiquette to train her husband to do household chores. If he put the toilet seat down, he got a cookie; when he mowed the lawn, he got some ice cream. Every task had a “payoff” of some type….. She figured that if this worked on the dog, it might work on Charles. Etymology: pet, etiquette (rules governing socially acceptable behavior) Created by: mweinmann.

Comments on Petiquette:

Nosila, 2009-06-30: 01:23:00
They don’t call it animal husbandry for nothing! Good Word.

Reinforceman: /re-in-force-man/ Lia found that Max responded well to positive reinforceman one day by accident when she came home and found the dishes were done. She fussed on him, grilled his favorite steak and bought him a six-pack. Max immediately got up after the meal and did the dishes. Later that night while watching Victoria Stilwell train a Rottweiler on “It’s Me or the Dog” she had a revelation. Perhaps she could teach Max to put the toilet seat down if she used a really good reward. She decided to learn some training techniques from Victoria and immediately went to the mall to get a little treat for him from
Victoria’s Secret. Etymology: reinforcement + man: in Operant Conditioning reinforcement occurs when an event following a response will increase the likelihood of that response happening again. Animals trained with reinforcement techniques are trained by using treats and praise instead of negative reinforcement.
Victoria Stilwell is a dog trainer on Animal Planet who uses reinforcement on ill-mannered dogs. Created by: mrskellyscl.

Comments on Reinforceman:

mweinmann, 2009-06-30: 08:03:00
Clever word and story….

Obediencesocool: /rhymes with “obedience school”/ They had tried everything, it seemed, to eliminate their son’s thumbsucking: behaviour modification, ignoring, even praise. Nothing worked until obediencesocool! The idea of simply complying with their requests actually became the new cool thing to do! They hoped this new trend would last and spawn similar trends. Etymology: A play on a dog “obedience school”. Created by: splendiction.

Comments on Obediencesocool:

Nosila, 2009-06-30: 01:22:00
Cool word…what you have to do with teens these days…

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DEFINITION: n. A computer programmer who corrects software problems by bugging the users, rather than debugging the software. v. To pinpoint the blame for any defects in a product, especially a software product which you have created, on “illogical” end-users.

VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)

Debugaboo: /dee – bug – ah – boo/ It was an exasperating debugaboo that the employees found themselves in. The front end application sometimes connected and sometimes did not. The programmer kept saying that the users were just not concentrating or had a bad work attitude when they could not connect. Etymology: debug, bugaboo (source of concern, trickster or prankster) Created by: rombus.

Comments on Debugaboo:

Nosila, 2009-06-26: 12:41:00
Dee Bootiful word!

Userabuser: /use-er-a-buse-er/ Our IT department specializes in the userabuser technique to solve most computer problems. It’s the “It’s got to be you’ approach. Etymology: user + abuse Created by: Stevenson0.

Comments on Userabuser:

Nosila, 2009-06-26: 12:37:00
Must be included in their tech training classes…

Technoway: /tek-no-way/ The office staff all called Hubert the tech ‘technoway’ for the way he tried to dismiss just about every service call by saying ‘no way is this a computer error, it’s operator error’. Etymology: blend of technician and the phrase ‘no way’ Created by: Mustang.

Comments on Technoway:

artr, 2009-06-26: 10:58:00
Nice combo!

Computerpogrommer: /com pew ter po grom mer/ Java a minute to hear about the Computerpogrommer in our office? His name is Seymour Fawltz and his Modem Operandii is to belittle you in front of your peers and Excel at making you feel like an idiot about your inferior computer skills. It was by sheer chance that someone found out he had entered the local Click&Drag Queen Contest, under the name Ana Log Macintosh, a Domainatrix. Now he knows we know his secret, so his bark is not worse than his byte. We found his Encryptionite! Etymology: Computer Progammer & Pogrom (organized persecution of an ethnic group (in this case, non-Geeks) Created by: Nosila.

Comments on Computerpogrommer:

splendiction, 2009-06-26: 22:52:00
LOL! A great creation.

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