DEFINITION: v. To ask someone who is clearly in a store uniform, perhaps on a ladder creating a display or running a cash register “Do you work here?” n. A person who doesn’t know how to ask for assistance in a retail store without asking a stupid question.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Cusdumber: /kuhs-duh-mer/ If there is anything that a store clerk hates, it has to be the cusdumber who can’t seem to do anything without asking a stupid question or making an ignorant statement. “Do you work here?” “This item is scratched (they just scratched it). Can I get a discount?” The only hope is if they get just a little dumber, they might forget to breath or how to get to to the store. Etymology: customer (a person who purchases goods or services from another) + dumb (lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted) Created by: artr2.
Klutztomer: /klutz tum err/ The klutztomer is always riot Etymology: customer klutz Created by: galwaywegian.
Staffinvection: /staff in vek shun/ When George the patient asked the man in the hospital with the white scrubs; the stethoscope, mask and chart whether he worked there as he took George’s vitals, he got himself a case of staffinvection. Etymology: Staff (employee) & Invection (. An expression which inveighs or rails against a person) & Wordplay on Staph Infection (A spherical gram-positive parasitic bacterium of the genus Staphylococcus, usually occurring in grapelike clusters and causing boils, septicemia, and other infections).
Created by: Nosila.
To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:
https://www.verbotomy.com/verboticisms.php?jid=hook
Be Creative,
James
www.verbotomy.com
the create-a-word game