{"id":1325,"date":"2011-10-25T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:00:12","slug":"ostrichize-oh-ducky-im-so-glad-that-i-can-talk-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Ostrichize: Oh Ducky, I&#8217;m so glad that I can talk to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A person who has the highly developed ability to communicate on a direct level with any type of animal, except for human beings. <em>v.<\/em> To talk to animals because you know that communicating with people is useless. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/duck.gif\" alt=\"Oh Ducky, I'm so glad that I can talk to you\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ostrichize<\/strong>:  \/<em>ostrich-size<\/em>\/ Jennifre, engaged deep in a coversation with a snow leopard at the zoo, ignored the sneers and giggles of people passing by.  The cat-whisperer, ostrichized from society, knew that her feline friends were her true companions <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Ostrich + Ostracize  <em>Created by:<\/em> youmustvotenato.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Ostrichize:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=youmustvotenato\">youmustvotenato<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2011-10-21: 10:27:00<\/em> <br \/>Yes, her hippie parents named her Jennifre.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Diafrog<\/strong>:  \/<em>d\u00c4\u00ab\u00c9\u2122fr\u00c3\u00b4g<\/em>\/ Unable to find her prince, Jessica is left talking to any number of toads. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been known to work her tale off on this one-sided diafrog. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  dialogue (conversation between two or more people) + frog (a tailless amphibian with a short squat body, moist smooth skin, and very long hind legs for leaping) Unwilling alter ego of princes in fairy tales. <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petsperanto<\/strong>:  \/<em>pet spur antow<\/em>\/ Not only could she speak petsperanto, she could tweet. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  esperanto, pet <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loonatic<\/strong>:  \/<em>loon a tik<\/em>\/ Fauna could always understand all animal voices and in particular had a great rapport with all forms of waterfowl. She could translate duckdialect, goosegarble,swanspeak and in particular, loonlingo. In fact, the people she ignored thought her a loonatic, when she spoke loonatalk! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Wordplay on Lunatic (a crazy person;insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon) + Loon (a waterfowl)<br \/>\n <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=duck\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=duck<\/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 has the highly developed ability to communicate on a direct level with any type of animal, except for human beings. v. To talk to animals because you know that communicating with people is useless. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Ostrichize: \/ostrich-size\/ Jennifre, engaged deep in a coversation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ostrichize: Oh Ducky, I&#8217;m so glad that I can talk to you<\/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\/1325"}],"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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}