{"id":1074,"date":"2010-11-17T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2010-11-17T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:00:12","slug":"carmunicator-whats-with-this-chick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Carmunicator: What&#8217;s with this chick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To sit in your car and repeatedly honk your horn, so that your passengers, who are waiting inside the house, know you are ready to go. <em>n.<\/em> A person who uses a car horn as an multi-purpose communication tool.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/honker.gif\" alt=\"What's with this chick?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carmunicator<\/strong>:  \/<em>kar mew nik ay tor<\/em>\/ The instalation of a novelty hooter in his car turned him from a carmunicator to a carmoonicator <em>Etymology:<\/em>  communicator, car <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beepcreep<\/strong>:  \/<em>beep kreep<\/em>\/ The neighbors called Jeff, Captain Hornblower, because he never got out of his car when he called on Nancy. Her father thought him just a beepcreep, who showed no respect, because he&#8217;d never even bothered to meet the family when he first came calling on his daughter. One morning he woke up and thought somewone had been in his garage, but nothing seemed amiss. That is until he drove up to Nancy&#8217;s house and pressed the car horn.  Instead of the usual beep, the noise of a grunting pig bellowed throughout the neighborhood. The racket was so embarassing, he stopped pressing the horn. If only he&#8217;d bothered to meet Nancy&#8217;s family, he would have learned that her brother was famous for his custom car horn jobs&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Beep (a short high tone produced as a signal or warning;call, summon, or alert with a beeper;make a loud noise) &amp; Creep (someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Beepcreep:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=remistram\">remistram<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-11-15: 08:51:00<\/em> <br \/>haha funny!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Honkhint<\/strong>:  \/<em>hongk-hintt<\/em>\/ The longer he honkhinted the more she took her sweet time to get ready. He would look like the mental health patient in the eyes of the neighbours, not her.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  honk (like a car horn) + hint (to communicate or suggest in an indirect way) <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Honkhint:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2010-11-15: 18:53:00<\/em> <br \/>think I met him&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Toottootcommon<\/strong>:  \/<em>to\u00c5\u008dtto\u00c5\u008dtk\u00c3\u00a4m\u00c9\u2122n<\/em>\/ When Glen pulls up to pick up Jill, he acts like Tutankhamen, too good to get out of his custom chariot and ring the doorbell. Jill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dad thinks of Glen as toottootcommon, an all-too-typical teenager with a all-too-noisy car horn. He hopes this is the only type of horn(y) he has to deal with. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  toottoot (a short, sharp sound made by a horn, trumpet, or similar instrument) + common (occurring, found, or done often; prevalent) a play on Tutankhamen &#8211; Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=honker\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=honker<\/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: v. To sit in your car and repeatedly honk your horn, so that your passengers, who are waiting inside the house, know you are ready to go. n. A person who uses a car horn as an multi-purpose communication tool. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Carmunicator: \/kar mew nik ay tor\/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carmunicator: What&#8217;s with this chick?<\/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\/1074"}],"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=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}