{"id":1660,"date":"2013-03-07T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:02:35","slug":"furboding-why-are-you-staring-at-me-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"Furboding: Why are you staring at me like that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To be woken up by a child or pet who is quietly but intently staring at you from the edge of your bed. <em>n.<\/em> A creepy silent stare that is so intense that it pierces sleep. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/stare.gif\" alt=\"Why are you staring at me like that? \" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Furboding<\/strong>:  \/<em>fer-BODE-ing<\/em>\/ Sally&#8217;s dreams were interrupted by an awful sense of furboding and she became aware that her cat, Felicity, was staring at her ominously as she slept. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;fur&#8217; and &#8216;bode'(be an omen; portend) &#8211; a play on the word foreboding(A sense of impending evil or misfortune) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terroreyezing<\/strong>:  \/<em>ter-ohr-ahyz-ing<\/em>\/ Maybe Marty shouldn&#8217;t have stayed up late to watch that scary movie on a night she was going to be alone. Maybe her friend was right to say that there seemed to be something demonic about her cat, Lilith. All she knows now is that she can&#8217;t sleep with the cat terroreyezing her from its perch atop the headboard. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  terrorizing (to dominate or coerce by intimidation) + eyeing (to observe or watch narrowly) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=stare\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=stare<\/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 be woken up by a child or pet who is quietly but intently staring at you from the edge of your bed. n. A creepy silent stare that is so intense that it pierces sleep. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Furboding: \/fer-BODE-ing\/ Sally&#8217;s dreams were interrupted by an awful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Furboding: Why are you staring at me like that?<\/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\/1660"}],"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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}