{"id":1446,"date":"2012-04-09T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2012-04-09T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T16:01:26","slug":"uglawn-what-do-you-think-of-the-newest-addition-to-our-front-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Uglawn: What do you think of the newest addition to our front lawn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To express your love of nature by covering your lawn with statues, ornaments and other plastic figurines. <em>n.<\/em> A home which is infested with gnomes, elves, plastic animals, and other lawn ornaments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/gnomes.gif\" alt=\"What do you think of the newest addition to our front lawn?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Uglawn<\/strong>:  \/<em>uhg-lawn<\/em>\/ Mindy just loves plastic gnomes, elves, mushrooms, flamingos, and deer. There are so many ornaments on her uglawn that you can hardly find a single blade of grass. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  ugly (unattractive) + lawn (cultivated area of green grass) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gnomensland<\/strong>:  \/<em>no mens land<\/em>\/ Mary Contrary&#8217;s home was a gaudy fairy tale house surrounded by a front and backyard covered by every known garden ornament. She had over 200 garden gnomes, no two alike and each had a name. Her home was a gnomensland, as no sane man would be caught dead in this fairyland setting. Even her dog was embarrassed to be seen there&#8230;he was sure all these creatures came alive at night and they probably did! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Gnome (elf or fairy) &amp; No Mens Land (devoid of men) &amp; WordPlay on No-Mans-Land (an area not suitable or used for occupation or habitation; <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shamitten<\/strong>:  \/<em>shar-mit-ten<\/em>\/ Leslie was aghast when she pulled up in front of her friends&#8217; house. &#8216;I knew Sarah had a gnome fetish, but this is total addiction! She&#8217;s completely shamitten&#8217;. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Sham &#8211;  bogus or false<br \/>\nSmitten &#8211; strongly attracted to someone or something. <em>Created by:<\/em> fabdiva.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=gnomes\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=gnomes<\/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 express your love of nature by covering your lawn with statues, ornaments and other plastic figurines. n. A home which is infested with gnomes, elves, plastic animals, and other lawn ornaments. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Uglawn: \/uhg-lawn\/ Mindy just loves plastic gnomes, elves, mushrooms, flamingos, and deer. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uglawn: What do you think of the newest addition to our front lawn?<\/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\/1446"}],"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=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}