{"id":236,"date":"2007-12-12T02:23:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T06:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-12-12T02:23:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T06:23:57","slug":"excuse-me-but-are-you-giving-us-your-full-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Excuse me, but are you giving us your full attention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v. intr.<\/em>, To groom oneself in inappropriate places or at inappropriate times; i.e. clipping toenails while riding the bus, brushing hair while cooking, or plucking nose hairs during job interviews. <em>n.<\/em>, A person who practices personal hygiene in public places.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/toenails.gif\" alt=\"Excuse me, but are you giving us your full attention?\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inappropreen<\/strong>:  \/<em>in-un-proh-preen<\/em>\/ While she ate her yogurt on the subway, and to her horror she heard the disturbing sound of &#8220;click, click&#8221; behind her. As her stomach flipped, she saw someone inappropreening behind her, she quickly covered her yogurt so the shards of toenails wouldn&#8217;t contaminate it. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  inappropriate + preen <em>Created by:<\/em> remistram.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Inappropreen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Tigger\">Tigger<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-07: 22:48:00<\/em><br \/>\nLove the word &#8212; the sentence makes me nauseous.  Great job!!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-09: 15:52:00<\/em><br \/>\nGreat word!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Vulgroomer<\/strong>:  \/<em>-vuhl&#8217;-groom-\u00c9\u2122r-<\/em>\/ Every time I looked over at Ted during the meeting, he was vulgrooming himself &#8212; first, picking food out of his teeth, then with a finger stuck in his ear, digging around for earwax, which he later scraped off on the edge of the table &#8212; as if the conference room were his personal bathroom, and the rest of us were simply intruding, and subject to witness his rather uncouth hygienic habits. <em>Etymology:<\/em> vulgar (Latin, vulg\u00c4\u0081ris &#8211; equiv. to vulg[us] the general public) + groom (possibly from Old French, grommet &#8211; &#8220;servant&#8221;); Vulgroom, -er, -ing <em>Created by:<\/em> Tigger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Vulgroomer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-07: 07:01:00<\/em><br \/>\ngroomsome!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-09: 15:55:00<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;Nice&#8221; word!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Shownailclipper<\/strong>:  \/<em>sho-nail-clip-per<\/em>\/ C.J. is a shownailclipper.  Shards of his DNA can be found throughout our office. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  show, toenail clipper <em>Created by:<\/em> purpleartichokes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Shownailclipper:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-12-07: 13:52:00<\/em><br \/>\nexcellent but gross<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Grewwwwm<\/strong>:  \/<em>gr    ewwwwwwwwww   m<\/em>\/ her grewwwwming habits meant that her bosses always thought she was immaculate, while those unfortunate enough to share the lift to the boardroom with herusually had to skip lunch. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  groom, ewwwwwww <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=toenails\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=toenails<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative,<\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/\/\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Definition Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Verbotomy\">Verbotomy<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2007-12-07: 01:59:00<\/em><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s definition was suggested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=kabloozie\"><strong>kabloozie<\/strong><\/a> Thank you kabloozie ~ James<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2007-12-07: 19:12:00<\/em><br \/>\nnice irony &#8230; liked it a lot<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Verbotomy\">Verbotomy<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2007-12-08: 00:08:00<\/em><br \/>\nThanks silveryaspen ~ James<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mindy1955\">Mindy1955<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2007-12-08: 07:09:00<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mindy1955\">Mindy1955<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2007-12-08: 07:10:00<\/em><br \/>\nSimple I like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. intr., To groom oneself in inappropriate places or at inappropriate times; i.e. clipping toenails while riding the bus, brushing hair while cooking, or plucking nose hairs during job interviews. n., A person who practices personal hygiene in public places. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Inappropreen: \/in-un-proh-preen\/ While she ate her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excuse me, but are you giving us your full attention?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[90,92,93,89,91,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}