{"id":1528,"date":"2012-09-11T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2012-09-11T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:01:21","slug":"bloss-i-think-this-is-a-game-of-hide-and-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Bloss: I think this is a game of hide and seek."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A momentary feeling of relief mixed with lingering dread, which occurs when your boss marches past the piles of unfinished work on your desk. <em>v.<\/em> To sigh with relief after your boss marches past your desk<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/gust.gif\" alt=\"I think this is a game of hide and seek.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloss<\/strong>:  \/<em>blawss<\/em>\/ Julie felt a huge sense of bloss after her manager rounded the corner without spotting her behind the unfinished weekly Sales Reports. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  bliss + loss + bless <em>Created by:<\/em> Discoveria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blork<\/strong>:  \/<em>bl-aw-k<\/em>\/<br \/>\n&#8220;You know when you&#8217;re totally blorking &#8216;cos your boss didn&#8217;t talk to you? I had it three times today. I nearly died of blork.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;OMG! I had a major blork just then. My boss is a total slave driver but he didn&#8217;t notice me slacking for a change.&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  The words &#8216;boss&#8217;, &#8216;pile&#8217; and &#8216;work&#8217; all squashed together into a semi-coherent sounding sort of word. <em>Created by:<\/em> Rhyme79.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Blork:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Discoveria\">Discoveria<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2012-09-09: 14:34:00<\/em> <br \/>Is she having a blockage or a blorkage? Great word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Slackawin<\/strong>:  \/<em><\/em>\/ Totally slackawinned my boss. He never knew a thing! <em>Etymology:<\/em>   <em>Created by:<\/em> unreal5.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=gust\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=gust<\/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 momentary feeling of relief mixed with lingering dread, which occurs when your boss marches past the piles of unfinished work on your desk. v. To sigh with relief after your boss marches past your desk VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Bloss: \/blawss\/ Julie felt a huge sense of bloss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bloss: I think this is a game of hide and seek.<\/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\/1528"}],"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=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}