{"id":1275,"date":"2011-08-12T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2011-08-12T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:00:06","slug":"gaspirate-why-are-you-sniffing-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Gaspirate: Why are you sniffing your phone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, A compulsive need to sniff everything and anything you pick up, even things that typically do not have distinctive odors. <em>v.<\/em>, To habitually sniff everything within your grasp &#8212; just to make sure it&#8217;s fresh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/sniffing.gif\" alt=\"Why are you sniffing your phone?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaspirate<\/strong>:  \/<em>gas pir ayt<\/em>\/ They called Barney the bloodhound, because he would gaspirate every object that came into his hand. It was embarrassing enough for friends when he did it in restaurants and stores.  But when he started doing it to new people he&#8217;d meet, they just had to keep a sniff upper lip and hope he would not describe what he smelled. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Gasp (a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open) &amp; Aspirate (inhale;suck in air, along with whatever smells accompany said lungful) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tactonate<\/strong>:  \/<em>TAK-toh-nate<\/em>\/ He likes to tactonate his belly button lint. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  tactile, nasal <em>Created by:<\/em> flyingheadlice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inscentivised<\/strong>:  \/<em>in sent iv eye zd<\/em>\/ his dog was inscentivised around anyone who asspirated <em>Etymology:<\/em>  incentivise scent <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compulsniff<\/strong>:  \/<em>k\u00c9\u2122mp\u00c9\u2122lsnif<\/em>\/ Gerry is obsessed with how things smell. Everything he uses must smell just right. He will compulsniff everything he touches. Last week he returned his new car to the dealership because it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have enough new-car smell. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  compulsive (resulting from or relating to an irresistible urge) + sniff (draw in air audibly through the nose to detect a smell) <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=sniffing\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=sniffing<\/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 compulsive need to sniff everything and anything you pick up, even things that typically do not have distinctive odors. v., To habitually sniff everything within your grasp &#8212; just to make sure it&#8217;s fresh. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Gaspirate: \/gas pir ayt\/ They called Barney the bloodhound, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gaspirate: Why are you sniffing your phone?<\/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\/1275"}],"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=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}