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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's weaknesses, failures and mistakes.
Verboticisms
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Depressimist
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: de pres sim ist
Sentence: Woody was a pileated woodpecker and a depressimist. Nothing could please him. He even hated his species' name...it made him sound like he always had piles. He wood birch about his troubles all day, but the other birds soon learned to twitter him for his negative talk. One brave, elder Robin finally had enough and told him, "Woody, spruce yourself up and quit pining, yew son of a beech. We know that your bark is worse than your bite. All this depressimism will alder you permanently fir sure, unless you learn to spruce up your outlook. Be happy yew are free and can fly. If yew don't like it here, yew can pack your trunk and fly away. Yew wood be less bore-ing and a lot more poplar, if yew quit making such an ash of yourself...oakay?!"
Etymology: Depress (lower someone's spirits; make downhearted;lessen the activity or force of) & Pessimist (a person who expects the worst)
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COMMENTS:
Perfect word - it should have an entry in Webster's! - karenanne, 2010-11-03: 22:34:00
I voted for yours, but it turned out I hadn't been logged in. Well, you have the points, at least! - karenanne, 2010-11-04: 18:00:00
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Negactivity
Created by: EpicButCrazy
Pronunciation: Neg-ack-tiv-it-ee
Sentence: He's so full of negactivity, even when he won the huge competition all he could think about was that they misspelled his name on the trophy!
Etymology: negativity + activity = to be quite actively negative
Bleakbeaker
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: bleak-beak-er
Sentence: Cardinella was such a sad old fella he would bleak around to bring everybody down. To him there was never a sunny or happy day...he managed to find always a spot of gray...as he would "bleakbeaker" to make everyone weaker! Draining out any happiness... trying to make others feel like a mell of a hess.
Etymology: Bleak:Providing no encouragement; depressing,gloomy and somber. Beak:Slang a person's nose or the projecting structure forming the mandibles of a bird, especially one that is strong, sharp, and useful in striking and tearing. Bleaker:Slang for a negative person that noses into peoples lives with a striking negativity to tear down their happy moods.
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COMMENTS:
luv your spoonerism! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-22: 22:26:00
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Fixhate
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: f-icks-h-ayt
Sentence: Joey was such a fixhate, always making those around him feel miserable. Even in public, he would be told "Have a nice day" and promptly responded, "Why should I?". He went so far as to paint his cubicle at work all black, just so his co-workers would feel gloomy too.
Etymology: Fixate (focus or obsess on something) + hate (anger or disdain for something)
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COMMENTS:
Very Strong and Powerful Word! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-21: 09:40:00
Biscotti,what a great word! I'm visualizing that black cublicle...lol :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-22: 05:55:00
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Woewallow
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: wōwälō
Sentence: 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's there! He firmly believes that every silver lining is wrapped in a big beautiful grey cloud.
Etymology: woe (great sorrow or distress) + wallow ( indulge in an unrestrained way)
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COMMENTS:
You met my dad? - wayoffcenter, 2009-04-21: 07:35:00
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Follyfication
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: faw ly fi ca tion
Sentence: Shrugh really looked forward to follyfication of all the silly human errors around him.
Etymology: From FOLLY (human stupidity) and JOLLIFICATION (find joy in or revel).
Pessimisappropriator
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: pez-i-miss-a-pro-pree-ater
Sentence: Never content with her own minor troubles, Marlene thrived by pessimisappropriating everyone else's catastrophes. She retold their stories as her own so frequently that even the victims started to believe it had happened to Marlene instead of themselves.
Etymology: pessimist (someone who focuses on the negatives) + misappropriate (to wrongly take over something)
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COMMENTS:
Like the aspect and approach you presented and the neat alliteration in your word. Both are another of today's Great Creates! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-21: 09:52:00
pessimisappropos! - Nosila, 2009-04-21: 22:25:00
Props! to your Pessimisappropriator! Very good word! :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-04-22: 05:52:00
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Pessimonger
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pes-uh-muhng-ger
Sentence: Elliot is such a pessimonger that if you were to give him a winning lottery ticket, he would complain that too much paper is wasted producing the tickets.
Etymology: pessimist (person who expects bad outcome) + monger (dealer in goods)
Misfortunehunter
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mis fort tyoon hun ter
Sentence: Lucky Lucy was not only a fortune hunter, she was also a misfortunehunter. Her specialty was finding old guys who wanted sweet young things. She always made sure they were rich, sickly, put her in the will and were without relatives. Once she got her hooks into them, it was only a matter of time before they keeled and she collected. Her black widow career paid well until the last old guy outlived her...
Etymology: Misfortune (unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event;an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes) & Fortune Hunter (a person who seeks wealth through marriage)
Shadyfraud
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: Shade-E FROD
Sentence: Steven is scuh a shadyfraud he always laughs at me when I spill scalding coffee all over my keyboard.
Etymology: Schadenfreude. God love the Germans
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by one of my favorite university professors who would respond to complainers with what he said was an old Japanese proverb -- "In among the cherry blossoms, the woodpecker hunts for a dead tree." ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-04-21: 01:43:00
Like today's definition and cartoon, that Japanese proverb, provides plenty of food for thought .... naughty knotty thoughts ... until I want to thought naught about it any more!
silveryaspen - 2009-04-21: 09:56:00
This thought provoking definition and cartoon certainly inspired every one today! Kudos to the professor and James and all the verbotomists who played today. All are terrific sentences and verbotomies, today.
readerwriter - 2009-04-21: 10:33:00
Do I live in the wrong hemisphere or does my day begin too late???? Either that, or you all are up past midnight EST! Fun word today to play with. How you do it, James, I will never know...you are an artiste!
Thank you silvery and readerwriter. Fortunately, there not a lot of woodpeckers among us, but apparently there are a lot of night owls. ~ James
abrakadeborah - 2009-04-22: 06:03:00
This word and cartoon today was very descriptive! I LOVE the old Japanese proverb you added "In among the cherry blossoms, the woodpecker hunts for a dead tree." :) I have known a FEW toxic people like this in my life~