{"id":1440,"date":"2012-03-30T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2012-03-30T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:00:48","slug":"assassassin-omigod-that-is-a-huge-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Assassassin: Omigod! That is a huge snake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To &#8220;adopt&#8221; a cute, baby, wild animal as a pet, which then grows up to become a very large, very wild, and very dangerous predator. <em>n.<\/em> A person who treats wild animals like pets, only to discover that they are not. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/huge.gif\" alt=\"Omigod! That is a huge snake!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assassassin<\/strong>:  \/<em>as-uh-sas-in<\/em>\/ Harry has a very big heart when it comes to animals in distress. All too often, when he takes in a wild animal as a pet it turns out to be an assassassin. Whether it is a matter of costs, trouble with authorities or bad behavior from his charge, he usually ends up taking a bite in the shorts. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  ass (buttocks) + assassin (a murderer) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fostermamba<\/strong>:  \/<em>fos ter mam ba<\/em>\/ When Ana Conda adopted her baby snake, she was told it was a harmless garter snake which would stay small. But in a few short years it got so big and ate anything in it&#8217;s path, without the benefit of adder-tives. It was then she discovered she had become a fostermamba to a not-so-civil serpent! Oh, boa-have&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Foster (adoptive) &amp; Mamba (poisonous snake) &amp; Wordplayon Foster Mom <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=huge\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=huge<\/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 &#8220;adopt&#8221; a cute, baby, wild animal as a pet, which then grows up to become a very large, very wild, and very dangerous predator. n. A person who treats wild animals like pets, only to discover that they are not. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Assassassin: \/as-uh-sas-in\/ Harry has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assassassin: Omigod! That is a huge snake!<\/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\/1440"}],"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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}