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DEFINITION: n. A momentary feeling of relief mixed with lingering dread, which occurs when your boss marches past the piles of unfinished work on your desk. v. To sigh with relief after your boss marches past your desk
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Stressurerush
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: stresh/er/rush
Sentence: When the boss is on a rampage looking to yell and dump on someone and my desk is backlogged and piled high, I go into a stressurerush when he storms past.
Etymology: stress + pressure + rush
Frespotism
Created by: protothor
Pronunciation: fres-PO-tism
Sentence: This uncanny sense of frespotism slowly began to fade as the boss marched away; I knew I had a week's workload ahead of me.
Etymology: From 'freedom' and 'despotism'.
Repentafacebookaphobia
Created by: couv78
Pronunciation: Repent-ah-facebook-ah-phobia
Sentence: Evrytime Mr. H comes by my desk its a mad dash to shut down my internet explorer. I think I have repentafacebookaphobia...but it passes.
Etymology:
Repsychment
Created by: geoamnesia
Pronunciation: rE + sI - k + ment
Sentence: The day was going quite well until Dan passed my desk, (did he notice the report that was due last week?) the rest of the day went by in a cloud of deep repsychment.
Etymology: A recurring psychological moment best known to proficient procrastinators.
Heebiemanageebies
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈhibi-ˌmænəˈdʒibiz/
Sentence: The fact that my boss has yet to figure out that I'm still working on last November's TPS reports really gives me the heebie-manageebies.
Etymology: From heebie-jeebies + manager
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COMMENTS:
very cute! - rikboyee, 2007-06-11: 17:57:00
Gives me the creeps just saying it out loud. - petaj, 2007-06-12: 07:48:00
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Relagony
Created by: Wordotwist
Pronunciation: Rel agony
Sentence: Unemployed for the last three months,Mariam was left in a state of relagony when the power company accepted her application for a job - but told her that the appointment letter would be issued in a month or two.
Etymology: A combination of the words relief ,lagging and agony.In the sense of relief followed by lingering agony
Ansighety
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: an-sigh-e-ty
Sentence: Tish worked in a perpetual state of ansighety. Her boss would periodically come storming around the room trying to make sure his people were working hard, but she was trying to get through the day hardly working. The minute he went back into his office she exhaled, pulled her Blackberry out of her pocket and resumed twittering.
Etymology: anxiety: state of uneasiness and apprehension + sigh: audible sound of relief
Drebossstrelief
Created by: XLilDevilGirlX
Pronunciation: Dre/boss/st/relief
Sentence: omg i think i have drebossstrelief!
Etymology: if u take all the lil bits of drebssstrelief and split them up like i did in how 2 pronouse it then u get its meaning the stress,relief and dread that gets made by ur boss.
Bossighed
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Bos-sy-d
Sentence: Tom was feeling really bossighed when the managing director made an impromptu visit to the office, he was so busy talking profits that he missed the huge backlog sitting on the desk waiting for Tom to deal with.
Etymology: Boss(a person in charge of an employee or organization) ORIGIN Dutch Baas 'master'+ Sighed(to let out an audible breath expressing relief) = Bossighed
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by cohenarie. It is also inspired by Timothy Johnson's book "GUST" where he advises that the first thing you have to realize about office politics is that it's a game. Thank you Cohenarie and Timothy! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by cohenarie. Thank you cohenarie. ~ James