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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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Jobilation
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: job/il/a/shun
Sentence: Being one who has always "played by the rules" Jonathan could not hide his jobilation from Erica when he walked through the door a free man at 8:45 a.m, less than an hour after kissing her good-bye that Monday morning.
Etymology: root word-jubilation: exultation: a feeling of extreme joy. celebration: a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event. exultation: the utterance of sounds expressing great joy.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent word! - Mustang, 2008-07-14: 17:47:00
Quite jolly! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-14: 18:56:00
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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
Giddyparture
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: gid - dee - part - chure
Sentence: After her boss yelled at her yet again, Gloria had a giddyparture. She made one last grand "gesture" at him; picked up her purse, clicked her heels, gave a loud cheer and walked out for good.
Etymology: giddy, departure
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COMMENTS:
giddyup! - Nosila, 2009-11-21: 01:24:00
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Jobilation
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: jaw/bi/lay/shun
Sentence: Jim experienced jobilation the day he joined the unemployed
Etymology: jubilation + job
Discontinilation
Created by: br0wn
Pronunciation: dĭs'kən-tĭn'-ĭlā'shən
Sentence: Once I left that hell hole of a job and walked out of those doors, never to come back again, I was overcome with a sense of discontinilation.
Etymology: discontinue , elation
Corpelation
Created by: schroesd
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Leaving his job as a cubicle drone filled Joe with corpelation.
Etymology:
Deliverdance
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: dee/liver/dans
Sentence: His feeling of deliverdance at quitting his job was so overpowering that he felt like Michael Flatley
Etymology: deliverance + riverdance
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COMMENTS:
reely impressive - galwaywegian, 2007-05-04: 06:58:00
Oh yes.. that's really good. - pinwheel, 2007-05-04: 07:44:00
thank you - reely (just got that one - funny) - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-04: 11:13:00
by jiggo it is a goody. - petaj, 2007-05-04: 20:22:00
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Fhukinay
Created by: petersn1
Pronunciation: fuk-in-a
Sentence: Fhukinay that job sucked!
Etymology:
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)
Exitstasy
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: egg-zit-stah-see
Sentence: I was filled with extreme exitstasy when I left my boring busboy job to move on to bigger and better things! It was after i quit that i remembered I dropped out of highschool.
Etymology: Ecstasy (joyful excitement, great happiness) + exit (to abandon, as in one's job)
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