{"id":605,"date":"2009-04-23T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2009-04-23T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T15:00:03","slug":"woewallow-i-wish-this-tree-was-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Woewallow: I wish this tree was dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To ignore anything positive and focus your energy on problems, disasters, and whatever bad news you find. <em>n.<\/em> A person who searches for, and feeds on, other people&#8217;s weaknesses, failures and mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/woodpecker.gif\" alt=\"I wish this tree was dead.\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Woewallow<\/strong>:  \/<em>w\u00c5\u008dw\u00c3\u00a4l\u00c5\u008d<\/em>\/ Willy watches the news with great interest. He loves to woewallow. If there is bad news he wants to share it. Disasters, tragedies, agony? A new study that finds your favorite food as a possible cancer cause. He&#8217;s there! He firmly believes that every silver lining is wrapped in a big beautiful grey cloud. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  woe (great sorrow or distress) + wallow ( indulge in an unrestrained way) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Woewallow:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=wayoffcenter\">wayoffcenter<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-04-21: 07:35:00<\/em> <br \/>You met my dad?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Raptsully<\/strong>:  \/<em>RAPt-suhl-LEE  (RAPTSULLIER)<br \/>\n[ rhymes with &#8220;musketeer&#8221;]<\/em>\/ Berserker psychos stomp on joy,<br \/>\nWith dark foreboding they deploy&#8230;<br \/>\nPoisoned tricks and creeping doubt-<br \/>\nIf it be bad, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll drag it out!<br \/>\nBesmirching that which some hold dear-<br \/>\nBeware the toxic RAPTSULLIER!<br \/>\n <em>Etymology:<\/em>  RAPT+SULLY= RAPTSULLIER&#8230;..RAPT: lifted up and carried away, transported with emotion; Middle English, from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere to seize&#8230;..SULLY: to make soiled or tarnished; Middle English *sullien, probably alteration (influenced by Anglo-French suillier, soiller to soil) of sulen to soil, from Old English sylian&#8230;..-IER: suffix denoting one who wields or participates in&#8230;<br \/>\n <em>Created by:<\/em> metrohumanx.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Raptsully:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=silveryaspen\">silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-04-21: 09:20:00<\/em> <br \/>Great word for a lot of the rappers who spewings fit this definition.  Super Terrific Verbotomy! <\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=metrohumanx\">metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-04-22: 01:21:00<\/em> <br \/>Aww- thanx, Lady!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=abrakadeborah\">abrakadeborah<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-04-22: 05:48:00<\/em> <br \/>I&#8217;m fully entertained! Love this part &#8220;If it be bad, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll drag it out!&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Negpeck<\/strong>:  \/<em>neg &#8211; pek<\/em>\/ Everytime I try to suggest something positive, Elaine always tries to negpeck it down. <em>Etymology:<\/em>   New Eng. (UWS) <em>Created by:<\/em> DrWebsterIII.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Negpeck:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-04-21: 22:26:00<\/em> <br \/>cute, drw.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=abrakadeborah\">abrakadeborah<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-04-22: 06:27:00<\/em> <br \/>I know an Negpeck Elaine just like this!<br \/>\n:)lol!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Ghoultures<\/strong>:  \/<em>ghoul churs  <\/em>\/ Named after the devil in him, Sin Nick earned his living, by feeding on, and exploiting other people&#8217;s weaknesses, failures, and mistakes &#8230;  by writing about them in the media, so all the world could see and hear about them, as well &#8230; and feed upon such misfortune, too.  People like Sin Nicks, Gloomy Guses, Worry Warts, Pessy Mists, Wet Blankets, Sca Vengers, and old Buzz Ards, and all their fallowers are ghoultures. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  GHOULISH, VULTURES.  GHOULISH &#8211; morbidly fascinated and obsessively interested in weakness, failure, disaster, death and anything repulsive.  VULTURES &#8211; birds or people who prey upon, and feed upon, the weak, the failing, the misfortunate.  Culture &#8211; groups of people with shared attitudes and beliefs, such as the ghoultures, the cynics (sin nicks) who feed upon the misfortunate.  Fall-lowers for followers. <em>Created by:<\/em> silveryaspen.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=woodpecker\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=woodpecker<\/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 ignore anything positive and focus your energy on problems, disasters, and whatever bad news you find. n. A person who searches for, and feeds on, other people&#8217;s weaknesses, failures and mistakes. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Woewallow: \/w\u00c5\u008dw\u00c3\u00a4l\u00c5\u008d\/ Willy watches the news with great interest. He loves to woewallow. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=605\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woewallow: I wish this tree was dead.<\/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],"tags":[90,93,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}