{"id":979,"date":"2010-07-13T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2010-07-13T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:00:05","slug":"mockscenity-what-did-you-just-call-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Mockscenity: What did you just call me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To use alternative &#8220;code words&#8221; instead of proper cuss words, in an effort to satisfy people offended by such vulgarisms. <em>n.<\/em> A word used as a replacement for an obscene or profane expletive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/beach.gif\" alt=\"What did you just call me?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mockscenity<\/strong>:  \/<em>mawk sen it tee<\/em>\/ Mrs. Beach, the English teacher hated profanity and forbade her students from using any of these words in her classroom. Kids being kids in today&#8217;s society of course cannot speak without cursing.  To keep from being expelled and yet express his youthful dramatics, one brain surgeon in her class found a solution.  He developed the mockscenity code. When he wanted to use a curse word, he had to substitute the first letter of that word with a &#8220;p&#8221; and if the first letter was a vowel, he just put the p in front of it. Pam, it worked like a pitch. It knocked the phit out of bad-sounding words and before long the whole ploody class was using it, pell yes. Mrs. Beach however had been a decryptor with the CIA before she retired to teaching and announced one morning, loudly, &#8220;The puck stops here!&#8221; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Mock (a copy or imitation of something; imitate with mockery and derision) &amp; Obscenity (an offensive or indecent word or phrase) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proxpletive<\/strong>:  \/<em>pr\u00c3\u00a4ksplitiv<\/em>\/ \u00e2\u20ac\u009dWhat the fudge is wrong with you? You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a frickin rock star\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, fumed Iggy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manager. \u00e2\u20ac\u009dYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supposed to be a hard-brass who curses like a sailor and the best we can get out of you is a proxpletive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  proxy (a person authorized to act on behalf of another) + expletive (an oath or swear word) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poophemism<\/strong>:  \/<em>poooooo fem isum<\/em>\/ She let out a string of poophemisms that included a banker, a brickhead and several ducks <em>Etymology:<\/em>  euphemism, poo <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morfiting<\/strong>:  \/<em>More-fit-ing<\/em>\/ The boy was morfiting at his teacher for giving him an F on his quiz. <em>Etymology:<\/em>   <em>Created by:<\/em> WarriorCatGoddess.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=beach\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=beach<\/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 use alternative &#8220;code words&#8221; instead of proper cuss words, in an effort to satisfy people offended by such vulgarisms. n. A word used as a replacement for an obscene or profane expletive. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Mockscenity: \/mawk sen it tee\/ Mrs. Beach, the English teacher hated profanity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mockscenity: What did you just call me?<\/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":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}