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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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Hastenwaste
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hay sten wayst
Sentence: You have seen him hundreds of times on airplanes. The guy in the back row who grabs all of his stuff. He never checks bags, just crams his overhead with tons of luggage. As soon as the plane lands he jumps into the aisle, ready to sprint out the gangway. Except the plane hasn't docked yet, others are in his way with the same idea and he cannot jump over them to get to the front of the line-up. He is guilty of hastenwaste, because he has to impatiently stand there for twenty minutes. This traveller never has a connecting flight or someone waiting for him...he just has to beat all the others out the cabin door!
Etymology: Hasten (hurry;act or move at high speed) & Waste (spend thoughtlessly;useless or profitless activity)
Hastenwaiter
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: HASE - uhn - wate - er
Sentence: Armando is an ardent and incurable hastenwaiter; he'll purposely prepare for meetings, trips or even visits hours in advance knowing he and his wife Matilda will sit around needlessly awaiting the appointed hour.
Etymology: Blend of hasten and wait.
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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Anticrastinate
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: ān'tī-krās'tə-nāt', ān'-tē-krās'tə-nāt'
Sentence: "Why must you always anticrastinate?!?" Chelsea berated Jackie. They had rushed to Ronald Reagan International Airport to catch their flight home to Atlanta, which involved a scramble from their hotel to the metro station, then transfers from the red to the orange to the green line, and then a mad dash to the baggage check station and a sprint to the gate where they arrived two hours early with their pre-printed boarding passes despite the strip-search they endured at the security gate, only to discover that their flight was delayed SIX HOURS due to snow in Duluth.
Etymology: 'anti,' var. of 'auntie,' favored spinster relative; 'crastinate,' var. of 'castanet,' flamenco percussion instrument.
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COMMENTS:
Such a interesting word! If my Latin serves me correct, the "cras" means tomorrow. And of flamenco and castanets, brings to mind the song, "Manana" and "the land of manana" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 05:55:00
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Fasterlag
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: fast-er-lag
Sentence: Mr. Speedy Slowpoker insisted on being a fasterlag at the airport. It was important to him that he be the first person to be waiting at the front of the line...for no good reason.
Etymology: Faster - to speed up and Lag-to slow down and lag behind.
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
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)
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)
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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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by Nosila. Thank you Nosila. ~ James