{"id":1640,"date":"2013-02-08T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2013-02-08T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:04:58","slug":"litterati-hes-kind-of-possessive-about-his-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Litterati: He&#8217;s kind of possessive about his litter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.,<\/em> To clean up another person&#8217;s mess, only to have all their garbage dumped right on top of you. <em>n.,<\/em> A person who tries to help other people solve their problems but always ends up in deep doo-doo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/litter.gif\" alt=\"He's kind of possessive about his litter...\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Litterati<\/strong>:  \/<em>lit ter a tee<\/em>\/ After Joe had finished reading &#8220;Cat on the Hot Tin Roof&#8221;, he had to go clean out Tiger&#8217;s stinkbox.  After tripping over his pet and showering himself with its debris, Joe became a true litterati. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Litter (trash;material used for animal indoor toilets) &amp; Literati (the literary intelligentsia;people who write, are well written or who publish or critique books) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallantrashed<\/strong>:  \/<em>gal-uhn-trasht<\/em>\/ Maybe it&#8217;s karma, maybe just bad luck but whenever Ben tries to make amends for someone else&#8217;s mess he gets gallantrashed. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  gallanrtry (dashing courage; heroic bravery; noble-minded behavior) + trashed (to destroy, damage, or vandalize) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistrophy<\/strong>:  \/<em>Assist + trophy<\/em>\/ &#8220;If you keep trying to reconstruct your neighbour&#8217;s ceiling, you&#8217;re going too assistrophy!&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Assist + Catastrophy\/Atrophy <em>Created by:<\/em> ElCappa.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Assistrophy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=ElCappa\">ElCappa<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2013-02-06: 11:37:00<\/em> <br \/>Probably should be a noun though<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Samaritrashed<\/strong>:  \/<em>seh-MAYR-eh-trashd<\/em>\/ As often as not when Harlan would voluntarily attempt to solve other people&#8217;s problems he would get it wrong and end up being severely samaritrashed for his well intended efforts. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;samaritan&#8217; (a person who is generous in helping those in distress)and &#8216;trash&#8217; (v. to subject to criticism or invective; especially: to disparage strongly ) <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=litter\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=litter<\/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: v., To clean up another person&#8217;s mess, only to have all their garbage dumped right on top of you. n., A person who tries to help other people solve their problems but always ends up in deep doo-doo. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Litterati: \/lit ter a tee\/ After Joe had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Litterati: He&#8217;s kind of possessive about his litter&#8230;<\/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\/1640"}],"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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}