{"id":1424,"date":"2012-03-08T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2012-03-08T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:00:05","slug":"anthrobromorphminion-little-ax-are-you-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Anthrobromorphminion: Little ax, are you awake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To talk to, encourage and advise inanimate objects, in hopes that they will work better. <em>n.<\/em> A person who talks to their tools, cars, kitchen appliances, furniture, or whatever&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/ax.gif\" alt=\"Little ax, are you awake?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthrobromorphminion<\/strong>:  \/<em>[an-thruh-broh-mawrf-min-yuhn]<\/em>\/ Speaking gently, Catalonia anthrobromorphminized the office printer, whispering, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you know what a hurry I&#8217;m in? All I want for you to do is print.  Print for me O sweet Cannon M882. Print!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll never understand Her like I do,&#8221; muttered Ralph as he passed them on the way to the water cooler. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  A mash up of anthropomorphism, bro and minion.  To attribution Best Friends Forever characteristics to inanimate objects in order to make them your minion and do your bidding. <em>Created by:<\/em> Ismelstar.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Anthrobromorphminion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=abrakadeborah\">abrakadeborah<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2012-03-07: 14:41:00<\/em> <br \/>WOW, WEE! and I thought I made them long! <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=abrakadeborah\">abrakadeborah<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2012-03-07: 14:42:00<\/em> <br \/>Say that five times, fast! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Automobabble<\/strong>:  \/<em>aw-tuh-moh-bab-uhl<\/em>\/ In lieu of scheduled service on his car Tim talks to his Civic. His automobabble can be better described as begging or cajoling. &#8220;I know it&#8217;s cold, please start today. Com&#8217;on baby don&#8217;t quit on me. Get me home and I&#8217;ll give you a little oil tomorrow&#8221;. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  automobile (a passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine) + babble (to talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly; chatter or prattle) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relationchip<\/strong>:  \/<em>ree lay shun chip<\/em>\/ Sylvia believed that wood was alive, so she tried to develop a relationchip with all things wooden, from tree hugging to joining splinter groups <em>Etymology:<\/em>  relationship, chip <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objecterize<\/strong>:  \/<em>Ob-jek-ter-ize<\/em>\/ In Sally&#8217;s sleepless thoughts she would often objecterize an ax across flying across the room to clunk her sleeping husband in the head with&#8230;so he would stop snoring. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Taken from the word ~ Object -Something perceptible by one or more of the senses, especially by vision or touch; a material thing.<br \/>\n2. A focus of attention, feeling, thought, or action: an object of contempt.<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> abrakadeborah.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=ax\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=ax<\/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 talk to, encourage and advise inanimate objects, in hopes that they will work better. n. A person who talks to their tools, cars, kitchen appliances, furniture, or whatever&#8230; VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Anthrobromorphminion: \/[an-thruh-broh-mawrf-min-yuhn]\/ Speaking gently, Catalonia anthrobromorphminized the office printer, whispering, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you know what a hurry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anthrobromorphminion: Little ax, are you awake?<\/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\/1424"}],"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=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}