{"id":1068,"date":"2010-11-09T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2010-11-09T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T17:00:12","slug":"pettedplant-i-thought-love-was-a-two-way-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Pettedplant: I thought love was a two-way street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A lovable yet stupid pet. <em>v.<\/em> To be dumb, fat, lazy, arrogant, and totally, completely, irresistibly cute. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/cat.gif\" alt=\"I thought love was a two-way street\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pettedplant<\/strong>:  \/<em>pet ed PLANT<\/em>\/ Her dog Mimado usually lay around the house like a pettedplant, and today was no exception.  &#8220;Oh, smoochiepoochie!&#8221; she exclaimed fondly as her dog pet-ter-pattered over and settled down in her lap for one of his 3-hour naps.  The fact that Mimado was now almost 90 pounds was beginning to weigh on her, both literally and figuratively.  But she had created this monster, and now she was being hoisted by her own pet-ard.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  potted plant + pet <em>Created by:<\/em> karenanne.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Pettedplant:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-11-06: 06:13:00<\/em> <br \/>great word<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Mopetron<\/strong>:  \/<em>moh-pet-tron<\/em>\/ Hammy the cat&#8217;s mopetronic behaviour was starting to creep her out, the constant eye contact and weird little grunts he made by his empty food dish &#8211; he would lay there all day until she fed him again. If Hammy could talk he would say, &#8220;You must tell me how beautiful I am daily, and you must pet me when I want you to, not only that YOU are MY slave, you do what I want when I want.&#8221;  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  moron (a stupid dimwit) + pet (domesticated tamed animal companion) <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scrumpy<\/strong>:  \/<em><\/em>\/ Look at that scrumpy feline! <em>Etymology:<\/em>   <em>Created by:<\/em> clevercommentary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adorablob<\/strong>:  \/<em>\u00c9\u2122d\u00c3\u00b4r\u00c9\u2122bl\u00c3\u00a4b<\/em>\/ Wes thinks he owns a cat. He is wrong. That thing that eats cat food, purrs when scratched is not a cat at all. Cats are barely domesticated creatures that hunt mice and other small critters. Cats are agile and light of foot. Wes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pet is none of these. What he has is an adorablob, a cute, treat eating, litter soiling lump of fur with the about as much ambition of a sofa cushion. Last week Wes had to trap and remove a mouse that was starting to establish a nest on Fatty McButterpants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 belly. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  adorable (inspiring great affection; delightful; charming) + blob (an indeterminate mass or shape) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Adorablob:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=karenanne\">karenanne<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-11-05: 13:15:00<\/em> <br \/>&#8220;Fatty McButterpants&#8221;!  That&#8217;s great!  &#8230;Although it reminds me of NJ Governor Christie, who is not so cuddly&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=cat\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=cat<\/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. A lovable yet stupid pet. v. To be dumb, fat, lazy, arrogant, and totally, completely, irresistibly cute. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Pettedplant: \/pet ed PLANT\/ Her dog Mimado usually lay around the house like a pettedplant, and today was no exception. &#8220;Oh, smoochiepoochie!&#8221; she exclaimed fondly as her dog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1068\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pettedplant: I thought love was a two-way street<\/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\/1068"}],"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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}