{"id":1046,"date":"2010-10-12T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2010-10-12T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T16:00:11","slug":"preproprep-why-did-you-tell-the-cleaners-to-come-so-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Preproprep: Why did you tell the cleaners to come so early?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> Redundant and often clumsy preparations made before meeting with a &#8220;professional&#8221; &#8212; like a  hairdresser, dentist or cleaning lady. <em>v.<\/em> To prepare for a meeting with a professional by trying to hide the fact that you desperately need their services.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/cleaners.gif\" alt=\"Why did you tell the cleaners to come so early?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Preproprep<\/strong>:  \/<em>pr\u00c4\u201cpr\u00c5\u008dprep<\/em>\/ Mitch has a very busy life. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why he regularly calls on professionals to handle some of the tasks that others usually handle themselves. The only problem with that is that he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to let anybody know how messy he is, so he will preproprep before going to a carwash, hair dresser, or have a cleaning service in. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  pre (before) + pro (professional) + prep (make ready) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prephairedness<\/strong>:  \/<em>prep hair ed ness<\/em>\/ Tressa had touched up her roots and trimmed her bangs the night before. She showered and shampooed her hair three times that morning.  She then blew dry her hair with a rolling brush, styled her hair with mousse and curled it with her curling iron. After spending three hours doing her hair, she declared a state of prephairedness and she rushed out of the house to get to her 10:00 am hair appointment. When her stylist saw the roots and her bangs, she asked who had done this to her hair. She replied, &#8220;Why, you did!&#8221; Little did she know that hair stylists have forensic skills and after intense questioning, our client broke down and admitted her desperation. Her stylist said, &#8220;Why Tressa of the Ubervilles, all you had to do was make your appointment a few days sooner!&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  preparedness(the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action) &amp; Hair (any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal;dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forexperfix<\/strong>:  \/<em>four-x-per-fix<\/em>\/ Trudie forexperfixed her house right before the cleaning lady came, and soon realized that after her cleaning lady finished, her house seemed dirtier than before. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  fore + expert + fix <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=cleaners\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=cleaners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n. Redundant and often clumsy preparations made before meeting with a &#8220;professional&#8221; &#8212; like a hairdresser, dentist or cleaning lady. v. To prepare for a meeting with a professional by trying to hide the fact that you desperately need their services. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Preproprep: \/pr\u00c4\u201cpr\u00c5\u008dprep\/ Mitch has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Preproprep: Why did you tell the cleaners to come so early?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}