verbo-|ˈvɜːbəʊ|irreg. comb. form of L. verbum word, employed in a few nonce-words, as verboˈmania (also verbo-ˈmaniac), verboˈtomical, verˈbotomist, verˈbotomy.1802(title), Hints to Legislators, by W. P. Russel, Verbotomist.1804W. P. Russel (title), Verbotomical Spelling-book.1805― (title), Verbotomy, or a classical improved vocabulary..of the English language.1923Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning ii. 89 A veritable orgy of verbomania.1977J. Garvin in D. Ó Muirithe Eng.Lang. in Ireland 112 Finnegans Wake abounds in Anglo-Irish idiom..but it is subsumed into..‘slanguage’ which leaves the book adrift in a polyglottic sea of verbomania.