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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.
Verboticisms
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Afterjunedelight
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: after/joon/dee/lite
Sentence: Afterjunedelight is what every teacher experiences at the end of term.
Etymology: afternoon delight (song made famous by Starland Vocal Band) + june
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COMMENTS:
After the grating of papers? - metrohumanx, 2008-07-14: 18:57:00
A+ - Stevenson0, 2008-07-14: 20:04:00
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Whatwillneverhappentome
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My life is destroyed because of whatwillneverhappentome.
Etymology: Coined in a fit of despair after being turned down by yet another job possibility and staying stuck in a job that is destroying me.
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COMMENTS:
Oh dear! There, there. Here's a few points for you. Love, VerbMomtomist. P.S. Try usajobs.com (or course, if you are in the U.S. or fancy living there.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-04: 21:15:00
Those three points just made my day. I feel bad for abusing the game--it's just been a little bit beyond one of those days today. And I did think someone else might relate. But tomorrow, I'm off. :D CINCO DE MAYO! I have to keep soldiering, looking for new work, or better yet, looking for more education. Thanks again. PS It could be worse. My job is not dull, but what emotional rewards there are are a pyrrhic victory. - mplsbohemian, 2007-05-04: 22:39:00
I should also say that I went from discovering a job rejection to hitting Verbotomy in about three minutes' time, so I was very hot under the collar. - mplsbohemian, 2007-05-04: 22:41:00
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Yippeefortyfive
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: yip pee fawr tee fye vvv
Sentence: The sense of yippeefortyfive was enhanced briefly with the succesful part insertion of his report into his line managers.... erm, backup filing system.
Etymology: yippee, p45
Truffking
Created by: thefreewheeler
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When I told the boss I quit, I tell you, man, I felt a wave of truffking.
Etymology: truff from 'truffle,' a treat. king, 'royalty', feeling empowered like a King or Queen, answerable to no one.
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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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)
Tickledpinkslip
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: tick-eld-pihnk-slip
Sentence: Though he wasn't trying to get fired, Bob was simply tickledpickslip over losing his job at the pork rendering plant. He thought the job, while it paid the bills, simply wasn't kosher.
Etymology: tickled pink + pink slip
Ecstickit
Created by: pinwheel
Pronunciation: ex/tick/it
Sentence: Jim was so ecstickit when he quit his job that he bought himself a new bed so as to be able to enjoy not having to get out of it to the max.
Etymology: ecstatic (to be in rapture) + stick it (as in take your job and stick it...)
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COMMENTS:
very clever! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-04: 11:01:00
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Mcmosh
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: Mc/Mosh
Sentence: After quitting his McJob, he pranced out the front door of McDonald's and did a McMosh all the way home.
Etymology: McJob + moshing
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COMMENTS:
Hehe! Love McJob! Now he's a Big Slack, a bumburger. Oh dear, now I'm hungry. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-04: 08:45:00
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Unemployjoy
Created by: daisy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Alan's unemployjoy prevented him from realizing he would be eating macaroni and cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner from now on.
Etymology:
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