{"id":1530,"date":"2012-09-13T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2012-09-13T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:01:01","slug":"assailsman-are-you-just-browsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Assailsman: Are you just browsing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> An overbearing or pushy salesperson who makes you want to leave a store rather than look around and buy something. <em>v.<\/em> To aggressively sell something to someone who doesn&#8217;t want it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/clerk.gif\" alt=\"Are you just browsing?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assailsman<\/strong>:  \/<em>ass ayls mahn<\/em>\/ the assailsman had no job convincing sheepish sheila it was a baahrgain <em>Etymology:<\/em>  salesman assail <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulturoso<\/strong>:  \/<em>vul-tsur-OH-so<\/em>\/ When new customers would come into the showroom Ronald would become a smooth operting vulturoso and would pounce on the prospect with high pressure tactics and almost always succeeded in getting a sale. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of the words &#8216;vulture&#8217; (n. 2. A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature)  and &#8216;virtuoso&#8217; (n. 1. a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pradatory<\/strong>:  \/<em>pra da tor ee<\/em>\/ Susie always hated shopping in those high-end designer fashion shops.  She loved the goods (but not their ridiculous price tags) and absolutely hated the sales staff who were obviously competing with each other for the commissions. She found them to be pradatory, diorbolical and too hugobossy. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Prada (an Italian fashion label specializing in luxury goods for men and women (ready-to-wear, leather accessories, shoes, luggage and hats), founded in 1913 by Mario Prada) &amp; Predatory (living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impeddler<\/strong>:  \/<em>imm-PED-lur<\/em>\/ The impeddler was so obnoxious that I stormed out of the shop, accidentally breaking some cheap plastic products on my way out. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  impede (to obstruct or hinder) + peddler (a travelling seller of goods) <em>Created by:<\/em> Discoveria.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=clerk\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=clerk<\/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. An overbearing or pushy salesperson who makes you want to leave a store rather than look around and buy something. v. To aggressively sell something to someone who doesn&#8217;t want it. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Assailsman: \/ass ayls mahn\/ the assailsman had no job convincing sheepish sheila it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assailsman: Are you just browsing?<\/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\/1530"}],"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=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}