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DEFINITION: n. A feeling of euphoria which occurs when you finally quit your boring, mind-numbingly dull, and emotionally unrewarding job. v. To quit your job and feel good about it.
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Abandeuphoria
Created by: Ellemorpheus
Pronunciation: A-band-you-for-ee-uh
Sentence: His abandeuphoria caused him to bounce about the room after quitting his job.
Etymology: abandon euphoria
Resignophoria
Created by: Rogan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He quit! A wave of resignophoria washed over him. FInally, he was able to continue with his childhood ambition of a career in cannibalism.
Etymology: resignation + euphoria
Freelation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: free-lay-tion
Sentence: The sense of freelation that Ross experienced as he left the building was exhilarating. Someone once told him that a person can say anything they want on their last day of work, and he did. Carrying the remnants of the last 5 years in his little box, he had no doubt that with his special skills and exceptional talent he could find work in no time at all. There was another McDonald's just down the street. Surely they needed an experienced burger flipper. And if they weren't hiring, there was a Wendy's, a Burger King, a Sonic, and a Dairy Queen within walking distance.
Etymology: free: not imprisoned, having liberty, to not be under the control of the will or obligation to another + elation: an exhilarating phychological state of pride and optimism, and absence of depression
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COMMENTS:
nice - galwaywegian, 2009-11-20: 08:39:00
When I was in charge of hiring I used to see any number of resumes from what i called job frogs who hopped from menial job to menial job, quitting at the drop of a hat when things didn\'t go their way. :-) - artr, 2009-11-20: 13:52:00
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Winetofive
Created by: CharlieB
Pronunciation: nine-to-five
Sentence: After sticking two fingers up at his evil boss, jamming the photocopying machine and unleashing a virus onto the office server, Phil laughed as he went to the pub to begin his new life as a winetofiver.
Etymology: nine to five (standard office shift pattern) & wine (intoxicating drink)
Thriliberation
Created by: ratbastid
Pronunciation: thri-LIB-ur-AY-shun
Sentence: My joy at having given my two week notice is matched only by my thriliberation at having two weeks of paid vacation left to use.
Etymology:
Quitessence
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: kwit ES ens
Sentence: Now that she had learned she was soon going to be rich, Wilby Cand decided that it would be great fun to do all those things she had always fantasized about doing if she never had to work again. She slept in on Monday morning, then sent out a company-wide e-mail to let everyone know that she wasn't coming in because she "didn't feel like it" and anyway, "Work screws with my buzz." She went on to describe her distaste with her boss's body odor, in addition to some of his personal habits, such as picking his nose when he thought no one was looking. She said it was too bad that he would be in charge of the whole company soon, since the big boss was "probably about to be prosecuted for fraud and/or will die of extreme old age." The e-mail took her a while to write since she also took care to personally mention each of her incompetent colleagues. All in all, it was the quitessence of a perfect day, replete with gratuitous cattiness, embarrassing (for everyone else) revelations, and sweet revenge, not to mention the sleeping-in part. Only after that did she read the letter again and realize that it said that she "COULD BE a winner," not that she WAS a winner....
Etymology: quit + quintessence (the purest or most perfect example of something)
Jobilation
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: jaw/bi/lay/shun
Sentence: Jim experienced jobilation the day he joined the unemployed
Etymology: jubilation + job
Quiphoria
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: k-w-ih-f-or-ee-uh
Sentence: Gary felt a moment of quiphoria as he walked out of the office building and jumped for joy as he realized he would never have to return.
Etymology: quit+euphoria
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by ohmytodd.
Thank you ohmytodd! ~ James
So many good words already. I'll have to think about this after I exit MPOW, and head for the carpark. (Only vehiciousexiting going on at this time of the day) I wonder if there will be even a minor thrill as I'm only leaving for a long weekend.
Jabberwocky - 2007-05-04: 14:08:00
I heard this one years ago but I can't let the day go without passing it on to people who like funny word combos - Today is Star Wars Day - "May the 4th be with you"!!
wordmeister - 2007-05-06: 23:31:00
Maybe we should do a Star Wars week...
Discombobulated! One of my all-time favorite words, nice to see it used.
lumina - 2008-07-14: 14:35:00
Today's definition was suggested by ohmytodd. Thank you ohmytodd. ~ James