{"id":1602,"date":"2012-12-19T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2012-12-19T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:02:47","slug":"horribowl-why-are-you-putting-that-by-the-front-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Horribowl: Why are you putting that by the front door?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, An ugly decorative item or article of clothing received from friends or relatives, which is kept stored away but ready to be pulled out at a moment&#8217;s notice in anticipation of a return visit. <em>v.<\/em>, To temporarily place an old, and perhaps unattractive gift in a place of honor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/gift.gif\" alt=\"Why are you putting that by the front door?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Horribowl<\/strong>:  \/<em>hawr-uh-bohl<\/em>\/ Tom&#8217;s mom is coming to visit for Christmas so out of the closet comes the horribowl she gave him last year. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Horrible (extremely unpleasant; deplorable; disgusting) + bowl (hollow, concave container) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Junkredux<\/strong>:  \/<em>juhnk-re-duks<\/em>\/ Nathan employed a sneaky program of junkredux wherein he would put trashy gifts on prominent display when the givers would visit,  the ghastly dragon head lamp his mother had given him for Christmas being the most notable example. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;Junk'(n. something of poor quality : trash) and &#8216;redux&#8217; (adj brought back \u00e2\u20ac\u201dused postpositively) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loodity<\/strong>:  \/<em>loo di tee<\/em>\/ Every Christmas, Jethro&#8217;s Mom would arrive for her annual visit and he and his wife wouud be forced to hang up her gift to them.  It was a black velvet painting of Santa sitting on a toilet and it was the height of loodity to them and a source of hilarity to others who happened to visit. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Loo (toilet) &amp; Lewd (rude &amp; suggestive)&amp; Oddity (unusual) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=gift\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=gift<\/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 ugly decorative item or article of clothing received from friends or relatives, which is kept stored away but ready to be pulled out at a moment&#8217;s notice in anticipation of a return visit. v., To temporarily place an old, and perhaps unattractive gift in a place of honor. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Horribowl: Why are you putting that by the front door?<\/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\/1602"}],"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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}