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DEFINITION: v. To never give up, to never let go of your dream, especially when others try to take it away from you. n. A person who just won't quit, even after repeated failures.
Verboticisms
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Tenaciteer
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ten a sit teer
Sentence: Jenny was stubborn and relentless when it came to getting her own way. If being a tenaciteer were an Olympic sport, she would win the gold every time.
Etymology: Tenacity (stubborn determinedness) & 'Teer (ala musketeer, mouseketeer, describing a person)
Resolunacy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: reh zo loon a sea
Sentence: his particular brand of lunacy was known to unnerve even those trained to stare down horny silverback mountain gorillas.
Etymology: resolute and lunacy
Dreamage
Created by: BMott
Pronunciation: Dreem - uj
Sentence: Her dreamage was admirable in the face of her parent's obstinant stance that she major in accounting rather than take an art trip to Paris.
Etymology: Dream - goals, aspirations, often unreasonable. -age. Taken from Courage.
Tenidiocy
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: ten + id + e + oh + see
Sentence: Rejection bedamned! Her tenidiosy drove her to reapply to medical school for the 10th time
Etymology: Tenacity + idiocy
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COMMENTS:
aah... Life is cruel, especially if you suffer from tenidiocity. - wordmeister, 2007-02-07: 12:24:00
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Terriertorialism
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: terrier-toreeal-ism
Sentence: At the supermarket, Susan flung herself at the last jar of coffee. She knocked over seven other shoppers as she did so, a fine display of terriertorialism
Etymology: Terrier - showing great tenacity and torialism the characteristics of that.
Malkate
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: mall kate
Sentence: If social change is to happen, more people must malkate.
Etymology: uses the initials MLK (Martin Luther King, Jr.) + "ate" as in fixate
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COMMENTS:
I thought this was a Malkin reference... - Alchemist, 2007-02-13: 07:03:00
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Persistenate
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pur-SIST-en-ait
Sentence: No matter the odds against him, Clyde, with dogged determination, would persistenate til he succeeded.
Etymology: Combining of persistent and obstinate
Monkeyjar
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'m&[ng]-kE-"jär/
Sentence: Despite the fact that he'd had to pay tens of thousands of dollars in restitutions to accident victims, the inventor of the RoboBarber 4.0 continued to monkeyjar, never ceasing to hope that he'd work out the bugs eventually.
Etymology: From the classic tale of the monkey who wouldn't let go of the treat in the jar despite the fact that he couldn't get his hand out of the jar while still holding it.
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COMMENTS:
Good Story! - wordmeister, 2007-02-09: 00:36:00
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Persistimistic
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: pur - sis - tim - is - tik
Sentence: Leticia was not only an optimistic person but when she wanted something, she became a persistimistic woman. Her motto was "never, never, never give up"
Etymology: persist, optimistic
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COMMENTS:
Persnatural! - Nosila, 2009-09-04: 14:34:00
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Grapture
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: grap/chur
Sentence: Her grapture was so intense that she could never let go of her dream to eat dog food
Etymology: rapture (obsessive dream) + grab ( to hold on)
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COMMENTS:
Imagine what it would be like if you were engraptured in someone else's dream... - wordmeister, 2007-02-07: 12:07:00
Maybe she graspired to be canine. - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-07: 15:58:00
ooh - graspired is a good word purple - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-07: 16:20:00
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Comments:
ErWenn - 2007-02-07: 11:13:00
I think today's definition is a good example of one that would have been better off as an adjective or noun than as a verb.
Hey ErWenn, You mean like: "A person who never gives up, who never lets go of their dream, especially when others try to take it away from them." ~ James
By the way, if anyone has a great idea for a new Verbotomy definition, we have now created a Definition Submission page. See: http://www.verbotomy.com/verbinition.php.
So please, feel free to send us your ideas and or comments. We'd love to hear from you! ~ James