{"id":1484,"date":"2012-05-30T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2012-05-30T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:01:28","slug":"tellhalfonehear-ill-drop-him-at-the-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Tellhalfonehear: I&#8217;ll drop him at the vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of one-half of a telephone conversation. <em>v.<\/em> To listen to one-half of a telephone conversation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/half.gif\" alt=\"I'll drop him at the vets\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tellhalfonehear<\/strong>:  \/<em>tel haf fone heer<\/em>\/ Sid usually got the gists of telephone conversations he heard wrong. He would tellhalfonehear one thing when the opposite was actually what was said. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Telephone (transmitting speech at a distance) &amp; Teel (say) &amp; Half (partially) &amp; Hear (listen\/pay attention) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prejuclusion<\/strong>:  \/<em>pre-joo-kloo-sjin<\/em>\/ Doug went off on some prejuclusion because he didn&#8217;t have the facts. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  portmanteau of &#8220;prejudice&#8221; and &#8220;conclusion&#8221;  <em>Created by:<\/em> Koekbroer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Converreact<\/strong>:  \/<em>kohn-ver-ee-akt<\/em>\/ Having secretly eavesdropped on Melissa&#8217;s side of her chat with her best friend Jane (about her recently deceased hamster, Toby), Martin completely converreacted and wholeheartedly believed that he was being rejected&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Conversation and Overreact mashed together \ud83d\ude42 <em>Created by:<\/em> Kirubeza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monolisten<\/strong>:  \/<em>mon-uh-lis-uhn<\/em>\/ As Tracy would drone on her phone Billy would monolisten and jump to some very odd conclusions. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  monologue (speech by one person) + listen (hear and pay attention) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=half\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=half<\/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 conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of one-half of a telephone conversation. v. To listen to one-half of a telephone conversation. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Tellhalfonehear: \/tel haf fone heer\/ Sid usually got the gists of telephone conversations he heard wrong. He would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tellhalfonehear: I&#8217;ll drop him at the vets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/1484"}],"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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}