{"id":263,"date":"2008-01-24T18:16:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:16:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:16:47","slug":"harasshole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Harasshole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v. tr.,<\/em> To share your feelings with a customer service representative by using a perceived product deficiency to express your own sense of inadequacy and\/or deep seated rage against the world. <em>n.,<\/em> An irritating or annoying customer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/customer.gif\" alt=\"These Post-it Notes don't post!\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harasshole<\/strong>:  \/<em>-hah-ras-hohl-<\/em>\/ Oscar had plenty of cars he needed to work on today, but for twenty minutes now he&#8217;d been stuck listening to some harasshole complain that the forty thousand mile warranty on his wife&#8217;s car tires &#8216;under normal driving conditions&#8217; should cover her repeatedly running over curbs, because, he claimed, that&#8217;s how she normally drives. <em>Etymology:<\/em> harass &#8211; to torment, as with troubles or cares; pester; persecute (Middle French, harasser &#8220;to harry&#8221;) + asshole &#8211; a stupid, mean, or contemptible person, [or a donkey&#8217;s poopchute, perhaps?] (Origin: 1350\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1400; Middle English, arshole &#8220;anus&#8221;) <em>Created by:<\/em> Tigger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Harasshole:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=bananabender\">bananabender<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-16: 05:50:00<\/em><br \/>\nHow funny!!! I can&#8217;t stop laughing! Love the word, sentence and the description. Good one!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-16: 10:45:00<\/em><br \/>\ngreat word<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-16: 16:23:00<\/em><br \/>\nFunny and a great word!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Crusstomer<\/strong>:  \/<em>cruss-tum-ur<\/em>\/ All clerks manning the crusstomer service counters should be equipped with IPODS playing soothing music with positive reinforcement lyrics. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  customer + crusty (irritable) + cuss (slang for curse) <em>Created by:<\/em> Jabberwocky.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Crusstomer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-16: 16:21:00<\/em><br \/>\nMaybe if they listen to the soft rock of &#8220;Bread&#8221; they won&#8217;t be so crusty! Another great word!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bullygoat<\/strong>:  \/<em>bul &#8211; li &#8211; gote<\/em>\/ He ranted and raved about the &#8220;faulty&#8221; nose-hair clippers, complaining that no matter how many times he used them his hair kept growing back. He&#8217;s such a bullygoat! <em>Etymology:<\/em> Bull**** &#8211; nonsense, humbug \/ bully &#8211; a tyrannical blustering ruffian \/ goat &#8211; &#8220;get on one&#8217;s goat&#8221; (coll) to annoy, also &#8220;act the goat&#8221; (coll) to behave foolishly <em>Created by:<\/em> bananabender.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Bullygoat:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-16: 08:03:00<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;Damn Ram&#8221; said Nannygoat, &#8220;but I love that old Bullygoat!  Clever!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-16: 16:27:00<\/em><br \/>\nI like it! Seems to me that he very caprickious!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Tigger\">Tigger<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-01-16: 21:02:00<\/em><br \/>\nHey, that&#8217;s it.  That&#8217;s what the guy in the picture kinda&#8217; looks like \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a bleating goat!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Creepsumer<\/strong>:  \/<em>creep-zoom-er<\/em>\/ The worst job at Sears is the product  return desk which attracts one creepsumer after another. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  creep + consumer <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=customer\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=customer<\/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>2008-01-16: 01:08:00<\/em><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s definition was suggested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=remistram\"><strong>remistram<\/strong><\/a>. Thank you remistram. ~ James<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. tr., To share your feelings with a customer service representative by using a perceived product deficiency to express your own sense of inadequacy and\/or deep seated rage against the world. n., An irritating or annoying customer. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Harasshole: \/-hah-ras-hohl-\/ Oscar had plenty of cars he needed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harasshole<\/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\/263"}],"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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}