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DEFINITION: v. To hurry up and wait. n. A person who compels you to prepare quickly for an activity which they know will be delayed, postponed or retarded.
Verboticisms
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Procrastinhaste
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: pro - crass - tin - hay - st
Sentence: In Edgar's procrastinhaste, he woke up the children four hours earlier than they needed to in order to catch the limo to the airport; just to make sure everyone was ready on time. Needless to say, his family was not speaking to him as they all sat waiting and ready in the living room for three hours.....
Etymology: procrastinate (put off, delay or defer an action to a later time), haste (overly eager speed)
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COMMENTS:
You knew my Dad, he was always 4 hours early to go to the airport... - Nosila, 2009-06-05: 14:20:00
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Punctualwaition
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: punk-shwul-wayt-shuhn
Sentence: I know the plane doesn't leave for another two hours, but I'm a stickler for punctualwaition.
Etymology: punctual (on time) + wait (to stay in place and remain in readiness) + inspired by punctuation (the act or practice of using standardized marks in writing and printing to separate sentences or to make the meaning clearer)
Earlisertist
Created by: chandlerh123
Pronunciation: er-lee-i-ser-tist
Sentence: "There's plenty of time stop being such an earlisertist!"
Etymology:
Blitzsitz
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈblɪtˌsɪts/
Sentence: The blitzsitz is an important strategy that is difficult to maintain because, like many preventative techniques, its usefulness is only noticeable when it is not used.
Etymology: from Ger blitz "lightning" + Ger sitz "sitting"
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COMMENTS:
I found out today that "sitzkrieg" is already a word! - ErWenn, 2008-04-22: 09:48:00
interesting - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-22: 12:30:00
My grandpa would've taken a blitsitz bath in anticipation of developing hemeroids. - stache, 2008-04-22: 20:07:00
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Rushtinate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: rush-tin-ayt
Sentence: Brad is known with little affection among his friends as a major rushtinator, one who always pushes everyone to get ready for events well in advance and then find all kinds of reasons to put them off indefinitely.
Etymology: Blend of 'rush' (hurry) and 'procrastinate' (to put off till another day or time; defer; delay)
Franticipator
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: fran - tis - uh - peyt - er
Sentence: What Frank hadn't franticipated , would be that Denise would be asking for a divorce on this their final vacation together. She was at wits' end exhausted by his never ending foreboding.
Etymology: frantic (excessively agitated; transported with rage) + anticipate (to nullify, prevent by taking countermeasures in advance)
Slomentum
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: slōmentəm
Sentence: Jerry loved to see the impatient motorist who just couldn't seem to break traffic-light slomentum. This jerk came rushing up behind Jerry, flashing his high beams, honking his horn, ducking into the next lane over and zooming past as if he was the only one who had somewhere to go. That's when he was stalled by the first of a series of red lights. The smirk on Jerry's face grew with each successive stop. Just to rub it in, as he came up behind "Mr. Impatient" at about the 4th light, he flashed his high beams.
Etymology: slow (moving or operating only at a low speed) + momentum (the quantity of motion of a moving body, measured as a product of its mass and velocity)
Queuebert
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kyoōbərt
Sentence: Albert is obsessed with being first. Whether it’s a new movie or the latest electronic gadget he just has to be at the front of the line. He’ll spend days camped out for concert tickets. His friends have taken to calling him queueBert. Perhaps this mania stems from the fact that his mother worked for the railroads and he was born in a caboose.
Etymology: queue (a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed.) Bert (short for Albert) a play on Q*bert an early video game
Expectorwait
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ex pek tor wayt
Sentence: John always had to be at the airport 4 hours befoire his flight just in case. His long-suffering wife Ada knew that he was not just being careful, he was obsessed. She knew that this would add to their travel day and they could expectorwait before boarding. That's why she always brought long novels...
Etymology: Expect (wait for;probable to happen) & Expectorate(clear out) & Wait (anticipate something)
Prodcrastinator
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: prod/cras/tin/ay/tor
Sentence: Jim was a hopeless prodcrastinator. He woke his girlfriend up at 5 every morning so they would be on time for work and then thought of endless tasks to complete which made them late every day.
Etymology: prod + procrastinator
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COMMENTS:
Clever Blend. Thanks for the welcome back. Unfortunately, carpenters, cables and computers don't mix well - hope to stay online, but that's the $64???? at the moment! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-22: 07:35:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James