{"id":1077,"date":"2010-11-22T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:00:12","slug":"geltmaniac-whats-wrong-with-your-husbands-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Geltmaniac: What&#8217;s wrong with your husband&#8217;s voice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A person who adopts the stylings, mannerisms and even of the personality of their favorite rock, movie or television star. <em>v.<\/em> To derive your identity from someone else, especially a famous person.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/voice.gif\" alt=\"What's wrong with your husband's voice?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Geltmaniac<\/strong>:  \/<em>Gelt me niac<\/em>\/ If Oscar Wilde were to be alive today, this is how he would have used the word probably&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Geltmaniacs are a delight to come across, they bring along everything worthy of imitation  without having the whims and fancies of a star&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Gelt- (Geltung  German )<br \/>\nthe desire to be important, famous etc.<\/p>\n<p>maniac (maniakos Greek, maniacus Latin)<br \/>\na person who has a great craving or enthusiasm for something<\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> merfinity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personalistality<\/strong>:  \/<em>purr-son-ay-list-al-ity<\/em>\/ Chad started to develop a personalistality based on his mancrush Brad Pitt. Of course he looked nothing like him. He also asked his girlfriend if they could adopt 3 children. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  personality + a-list (the beautiful people, elite, high society) <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zimmermannerism<\/strong>:  \/<em>zim ur man ur iz m<\/em>\/ Despite his many zimmermanerisms, and his styling, it becomes apparent once he starts to sing that, no, no, no, it aint him, babe.  His voice was far too good. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  zimmerman, mannerism <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celebritme<\/strong>:  \/<em>sel leb brit mee<\/em>\/ Wally Wannabee fancied himself a dead ringer for John Cleese, the British Monty Python Comedian.  He particularly thought himself as a perfect Basil Fawlty. In his little town, where most had seen the Fawlty Towers series, since they had access to a PBS station, Wally thought himself a celebritme. His famous line was to address his long-suffering wife as &#8220;Sybill, my litle nest of vipers&#8221; and his Mexican neighbour, Felipe, as &#8220;Manuel, he&#8217;s from Barthalona&#8221;. The only way his wife could get him to do any housework was to tell him that the Health Inspectors were in town. (But don&#8217;t mention the War!) <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Celebrity (a widely known person;famous;the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed) &amp; Brit (a native or inhabitant of Great Britain) &amp; Me (I, myself, first person singular) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=voice\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=voice<\/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 person who adopts the stylings, mannerisms and even of the personality of their favorite rock, movie or television star. v. To derive your identity from someone else, especially a famous person. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Geltmaniac: \/Gelt me niac\/ If Oscar Wilde were to be alive today, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1077\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geltmaniac: What&#8217;s wrong with your husband&#8217;s voice?<\/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\/1077"}],"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=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}