{"id":1567,"date":"2012-11-02T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2012-11-02T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:02:53","slug":"scarefication-eat-or-youll-turn-into-a-boneless-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Scarefication: Eat! Or you&#8217;ll turn into a boneless chicken."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, Cautionary advice provided by parents to their children, often makes no logical sense but carries enough emotional weight to affect the child&#8217;s behavior. <em>v.<\/em> To warn of danger through the judicious use of exaggeration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/chicken.gif\" alt=\"Eat! Or you'll turn into a boneless chicken.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scarefication<\/strong>:  \/<em>skair-uh-fi-key-shuhn<\/em>\/ Mother hen believes in the use of scarefication to keep her chicks in line. A little lie here, an exaggeration there, all pecked into their little psyches until they are afraid to do anything wrong.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  scare (to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm)  Scarification (scratching, etching, burning\/branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nitpeck<\/strong>:  \/<em>nit &#8211; &#8216;pek<\/em>\/ Henny Penny was always nitpecking her child repeatedly to the point of his premature hair loss! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  from nitpick  (pedantic,scrupulous( but more annoying when pecked  with a sharp beak or tongue) <em>Created by:<\/em> DrWebsterIII.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Nitpeck:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2012-10-31: 01:56:00<\/em> <br \/>Pullet-ically correct word!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Parentrauma<\/strong>:  \/<em>PAIR-ehn-trah-mah<\/em>\/ Though her intentions were good the cautionary advice she gave her kiddies was always extreme and always created excessive parentrauma in their little minds and hearts. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of the words &#8216;parent&#8217; and &#8216;trauma&#8217; (an experience that produces psychological injury or pain) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poultrygeist<\/strong>:  \/<em>pol tree guyst<\/em>\/ Chickenita Bantama had a hard time persuading her youngest chick,Henny Youngman, to eat his feed. She finally had to resort to scare tactics and told him the tale of the poultrygeist.  It was a scary ghost chicken that came after little chicks that did not eat up their supper. It worked for her, even if some thought it was fowl play&#8230;Happy Halloween! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Poultry (a domesticated gallinaceous bird) &amp; Poltergeist (a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder)<\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Poultrygeist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=DrWebsterIII\">DrWebsterIII<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2012-10-31: 11:24:00<\/em> <br \/>LOVING YOUR STORIES<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=chicken\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=chicken<\/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., Cautionary advice provided by parents to their children, often makes no logical sense but carries enough emotional weight to affect the child&#8217;s behavior. v. To warn of danger through the judicious use of exaggeration. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Scarefication: \/skair-uh-fi-key-shuhn\/ Mother hen believes in the use of scarefication to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scarefication: Eat! Or you&#8217;ll turn into a boneless chicken.<\/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\/1567"}],"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=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}