{"id":1580,"date":"2012-11-20T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2012-11-20T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T17:04:32","slug":"awkwords-this-may-hurt-a-little-so-tell-me-how-are-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1580","title":{"rendered":"Awkwords: This may hurt a little. So tell me, how are your kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, Forced small talk used by professional caregivers to put patients at ease. (Not usually effective.) <em>v.<\/em>, To ask insipid questions while subjecting a person to an intimate, awkward or painful procedure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/dental.gif\" alt=\"This may hurt a little. So tell me, how are your kids?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Awkwords<\/strong>:  \/<em>awk-werds<\/em>\/ Jim is not a fan of dental appointments, not because of a concern for pain or the loss of productive time. What he hates is the awkwords that fill the room as the procedures progress. It&#8217;s difficult, at best, to carry on a conversation with fingers, water spray and other tools in your mouth. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  awkward (lacking social graces or manners) + words (speech or talk) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interrorgate<\/strong>:  \/<em>in ter or gayt<\/em>\/ When Dr.Payne had George in her dental chair, she often asked him casual questions to get his mind off his ordeal. But since he really could not answer the questions properly, he felt this questioning was a way to interrorgate him.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Interrogate (pose a series of questions to) &amp; Terror (an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety) <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distracatack<\/strong>:  \/<em><\/em>\/  <em>Etymology:<\/em>   <em>Created by:<\/em> Treesh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yackattack<\/strong>:  \/<em>YAK-uh-tak<\/em>\/ During his dental procedures Elbert knew he was going to be hammered with a never ending yackattack by his dentist who never seemed to run out of questions and comments. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;yack&#8217; (Prolonged, sometimes senseless talk; chatter) and &#8216;attack&#8217; (to set about  or go to work on somethng vigorously)  <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=dental\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=dental<\/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., Forced small talk used by professional caregivers to put patients at ease. (Not usually effective.) v., To ask insipid questions while subjecting a person to an intimate, awkward or painful procedure. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Awkwords: \/awk-werds\/ Jim is not a fan of dental appointments, not because of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awkwords: This may hurt a little. So tell me, how are your kids?<\/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\/1580"}],"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=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}