{"id":747,"date":"2009-09-18T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2009-09-18T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:00:06","slug":"chirpatude-i-may-not-have-the-body-of-a-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Chirpatude: I may not have the body of a peacock&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> An individual who is so self-absorbed and cocksure that they cannot understand why their mating calls, or &#8220;pick-up lines&#8221;, do not generate the desired response. <em>v.<\/em> To repeatedly issue mating calls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/birds.gif\" alt=\"I may not have the body of a peacock...\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chirpatude<\/strong>:  \/<em>Chirp-ah-tude<\/em>\/ Charlie Chirpchipper had a bad case of chirpatude when it came to clucking with the chicks. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Chirp; : to make a chirp or a sound resembling a chirp or could be just<br \/>\n:to utter with a cheerful liveliness<br \/>\nTude;Shortened for attitude; An organismic state of readiness to respond in a characteristic way to a stimulus (as an object, concept, or situation or chick \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n: a negative or hostile state of mind<br \/>\n: a cool, cocky, defiant, or arrogant manner<\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> abrakadeborah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Narsisilly<\/strong>:  \/<em>n\u00c3\u00a4rs\u00c9\u2122sil\u00c4\u201c<\/em>\/ Andy thought of his pick-up lines were narsuccinct, brief and clear and, of course, about him. Most women thought of them as narsisilly. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Not in Andy&#8217;s case. The nothing that happened in Vegas was the same nothing that followed him home and took up residence in his bedroom. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  narcisism (excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one&#8217;s physical appearance) + silly (having or showing a lack of common sense or judgment) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loosure<\/strong>:  \/<em>loo-sure<\/em>\/ Lenny the losure bird would sit on his perch night after night issuing the same call, &#8220;heybay-bee, heybay-bee!&#8221;  The fact that he never got a response didn&#8217;t deter him from trying. He truly believed that one day a gorgeous chick would be attracted to him and agree to check out his nest. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  looser (loser) + sure <em>Created by:<\/em> mrskellyscl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cockadittamus<\/strong>:  \/<em>kok-uh-ditt-uh-muss<\/em>\/ that jackass is such a cockadittamus. his rap is weak but his perseverance is strong. (like mine was trying to spell perseverance!) <em>Etymology:<\/em>  latin for river-dick ? <em>Created by:<\/em> tommyboy.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=birds\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=birds<\/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. An individual who is so self-absorbed and cocksure that they cannot understand why their mating calls, or &#8220;pick-up lines&#8221;, do not generate the desired response. v. To repeatedly issue mating calls. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Chirpatude: \/Chirp-ah-tude\/ Charlie Chirpchipper had a bad case of chirpatude when it came to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=747\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chirpatude: I may not have the body of a peacock&#8230;<\/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\/747"}],"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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}