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DEFINITION: n. The feelings that well up inside of you when you're waiting for service and another person, who arrived after you did, gets waited first! v. To wait and wait in line, only to watch other people jump the queue.
Verboticisms
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Waitred
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: wait-red rhymes with hatred
Sentence: Tanya was filled with waitred while the officer kept answering the phone instead of helping the customers lined up at the desk.
Etymology: wait (be detained)+ hatred (loathing) + red (i was so angry, it made me see red)
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COMMENTS:
Could also describe waiting for a waiter to serve you. Nice one! - galwaywegian, 2009-04-07: 07:37:00
Captures that strong feeling with a really strong verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:32:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-07: 15:24:00
Nice, compact and self-explanatory! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:16:00
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Queuoma
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: cuo ma
Sentence: Henny’s queuoma spared her life for quite a while! She pleasantly stood in line in a kind of queuoma, and failed to notice the other stupidly eager birds stepping out in front of the line. As she neared the start of the line the sights and sounds before her were reminding her she was a chicken! Horrid chops! Oh the panic! Running around with their heads cut off! Henny forced herself back into her queuoma, allowing all other rude birds passage a HEAD!
Etymology: From queu (to line up) and coma (a state of unconsciousness). Queuomas occur when lining up and not noticing others stepping ahead in line and not really caring.
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COMMENTS:
SPLENDID word! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:17:00
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Infuriwait
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: In-fi-ur-e-wait
Sentence: Dr. Benson's patients were infuriwaited as one by one they were overlooked by a 20 story building.
Etymology: An annoying blend of 1)vb. Infuriate. To make very angry and impatient 2)vb. wait. To stand in line, queue.
Exqueueses
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: eckz-cue-sayz
Sentence: No one was going to listen to the histrionics of Censoria's exqueuses. Sure, she had waited in line for eight hours, asked the person in front and back of her to save her place while she used the loo, but there were no more tickets to the Crude Oil concert.
Etymology: A play on EXCUSES, to make allowances for, overlook; EX + QUEUE, a line
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COMMENTS:
neat - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-07: 15:26:00
Very hermetic. Lovely. - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:41:00
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Buttindignation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: butt/in/dig/nay/shun
Sentence: Sally felt the buttindignation overwhelming as someone cut in front of her at the ticketbooth and bought the last ticket.
Etymology: butt in + indignation
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COMMENTS:
that's good - petaj, 2009-04-07: 06:18:00
Good word. could have used it yesterday as well :) - galwaywegian, 2009-04-07: 07:36:00
buttinhol - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:13:00
oops ... you buttinhholed this definition! Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:14:00
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Queuerage
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: CUE-raj
Sentence: As she watched yet another shopper manage to slip in line ahead of her as she waited, Brenda felt welling queuerage building inside and only through concentrated effort was she able to quell an outburst of screaming and cursing.
Etymology: Blend of 'queue' and 'rage'.
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COMMENTS:
Also a play on courage ... the courage to remain calm despite your queuerage! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:36:00
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-07: 15:24:00
good word.. - mweinmann, 2009-04-07: 17:08:00
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Timeliened
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: tim + leend
Sentence: As I waited for hours to buy tickets to see Clayton and the Cluckers perform at the Easter Bowl; and watched those who came after me waited on first, I felt timeliened, numberjumped and bukbukstuck....
Etymology: time, timeline, lien, line....someone has taken a lien against my time when my place in line is taken away. It messes with my timeline for service.
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COMMENTS:
Sadly, there's no way, they will every pay, the timelien back! In the lientime, it is a very interesting verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:27:00
soundds like someone who performed at Woodcluck! - Nosila, 2009-04-07: 23:19:00
Lien on me-when you're not strong... - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:19:00
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Cutniption
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kut-nip-shuhn
Sentence: Jerry just about had a cutniption when people appeared to be butting in the line waiting to get into the club. Yeah, sure they are EMTs dealing with an ill patron but shouldn't they have to wait like everybody else. At least the sick person should have had the courtesy of falling out of the queue.
Etymology: conniption (fit, temper fit) + cut (to move or thrust oneself abruptly between others)
Jumplain
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: juh-mp-lay-n
Sentence: Oh the feelings of jumplain Adam had when he waited in line 3 hours on black friday, only to watch others jump the line and wait just 3 minutes.
Etymology: jump (move forward) + pain (feelings of hurt) + complain (showing anger towards something or someone)
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COMMENTS:
Great etymology and blending. Great create! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:22:00
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Linearage
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: linēərāj
Sentence: Gerry was happy when he was finally able to take his kids to Disney World. He fully expected to have to wait in lines. What he hadn't anticipated was the queue jumpers who thought nothing of cutting in line. He could feel his linearage building. If the kids weren't with him there might have been a all-out queuebrawl.
Etymology: linear (arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line) + rage (violent, uncontrollable anger)
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COMMENTS:
Wouldn't want the kids to witness GERRYatrix! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:23:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by abrakadeborah. Thank you abrakadeborah. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-04-07: 02:41:00
Very greative cartoon, James!
abrakadeborah - 2009-04-07: 05:46:00
Thanks James! great cartoon too! It made me think hard on my own definition :)
mweinmann - 2009-04-07: 07:39:00
The cartoon was very thought provoking....that sometimes, we might want to wait or that what we are waiting for might not be the "answer" to our wishes in the end.
Thank you. I guess the feeling is that sometimes we're lucky enough NOT to get what we wanted. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by abrakadeborah. Thank you abrakadeborah. ~ James