{"id":722,"date":"2009-08-25T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2009-08-25T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T16:00:10","slug":"bewildheard-ill-drop-him-at-the-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Bewildheard: I&#8217;ll drop him at the vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> A conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of one-half of a telephone conversation. <em>v.<\/em> To listen to one-half of a telephone conversation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/half.gif\" alt=\"I'll drop him at the vets\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bewildheard<\/strong>:  \/<em>bee &#8211; willd &#8211; hurd<\/em>\/ Jeremy was bewilheard after he listened in on Josiah&#8217;s phone conversation.  Because he only heard half of the dialog, he came to some strange conclusions. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  bewildered, heard <em>Created by:<\/em> mweinmann.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Bewildheard:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-08-21: 12:38:00<\/em> <br \/>Bewilderado&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Converplation<\/strong>:  \/<em>con-ver-play-shon<\/em>\/ Ray&#8217;s imagination and contemplation mixed with Renna&#8217;s conversation and became a converplation when he failed to get a clarification of her predication, so he developed a fabrication about elimination when the conversation was a merely a preindication of the eradication of his hamster, Jay. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  conversation: informal dialogue or discussion + contemplation: cogitation, consideration, deliberation or rumination (don&#8217;tcha just love dictionaries?)  <em>Created by:<\/em> mrskellyscl.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Converplation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Nosila\">Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2009-08-21: 12:35:00<\/em> <br \/>Excellent rodentation!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Hearhersay<\/strong>:  \/<em>heer hur say<\/em>\/ Phonecia talked to her friends and relations constantly on the phone. George, who had neither friends nor relations, could not do the same.  Therefore he tended to listen in on those half conversations and got his exercise jumping to conclusions. He always incorrectly assumed they were discussing him. He was half right.  Especially the night he overheard Phonecia talking to her cousin, Vinny, who was an exterminator. Although it was hearhersay, George was pretty sure the pest control solution was meant for him.  And he was right&#8230;RAID! <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Hearsay (heard through another rather than directly;gossip;assumption) &amp; Hear Her Say (Hear a woman say, as opposed to hear what she hears). <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bialog<\/strong>:  \/<em>b\u00c4\u00ab\u00c9\u2122l\u00c3\u00a4g<\/em>\/ Drawing conclusions from a bialog of an overheard phone call can be as difficult as doing a dot-to-dot puzzle using only the even numbers. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Bisect (divide in two [half]) + dialog (conversation between two or more people) <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=half\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=half<\/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: n. A conclusion or an assumption developed after careful listening to, and analysis of one-half of a telephone conversation. v. To listen to one-half of a telephone conversation. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Bewildheard: \/bee &#8211; willd &#8211; hurd\/ Jeremy was bewilheard after he listened in on Josiah&#8217;s phone conversation. Because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bewildheard: I&#8217;ll drop him at the vets<\/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\/722"}],"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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}