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DEFINITION: To never give up, to never let go of your dream, especially when others try to take it away from you.
Verboticisms
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Persistenacious
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Per - sis - tuh - NAY - shuss
Sentence: Despite ongoing efforts by friends and family to dissuade her from persuing her goals, Wilhelmena was persistenatious in sticking to her dreams
Etymology: A play on the words persistent and tenacious
Carpedream
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: kar-pay-DREE-m. (to rhyme with carpe diem)
Sentence: After years of ridicule from his Latin teacher because of his lethargy, Bob decided to cease the daze, yelling "carpedream! carpedream!"
Etymology: To sieze the dream! Based on carpe diem: Latin phrase meaning "pluck the day" (or in modern parlance rendered: "to sieze the day."
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COMMENTS:
Clever play ... on seize the day! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-02: 14:38:00
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Pullsevere
Created by: Zaeyde
Pronunciation: Pul-se-veer
Sentence: They tried to take away my dream of becoming a professional hot dog tester, but I pullsevered, and look at me now!
Etymology: Persevere, combined with "pull."
Convictream
Created by: freakystyley
Pronunciation: Con-Vick-Trim
Sentence: Leslie's goal, or rather convictream, in life is to win the "Best Mud-slinging Champ" trophy even if he has to play dirty.
Etymology: Conviction + Dream
Persevicious
Created by: spunkify
Pronunciation: Per-se- vish-us
Sentence: Wow, she is so persevicious, she is still protesting even when the officials said she couldn't!
Etymology: Perseverance + Tenacious
Hogsessive
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: hog/sess/ive
Sentence: She had such a hogsessive personality, that once she made a decision, no one challenged her.
Etymology: hog + obsessive
Disquittable
Created by: emmthewriter
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As disquittable as she is, she never gives up or loses faith in herself.
Etymology:
Tugodream
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: tug-oh-dreem
Sentence: A game of tugodream usually occurred when Susan's mother told her she couldn't possibly achieve her dream of winning in a hot dog eating contest.
Etymology: like tug-o-war
Tenacidream
Created by: Korinne
Pronunciation: ten/a/si/dreem
Sentence: The tenacidreams of potential singing "Idol" show contestants make for good television.
Etymology: Tenacity + Dream
Clampnatious
Created by: valkyrie
Pronunciation: clamp-nay-shuss
Sentence: although now living in a slum at the age of 56 the fact that she still tried out for the junior high volleyball team showed her genetic clampnatious nature
Etymology: variation on the word clamp [meaning to grip]
Comments:
OZZIEBOB - 2008-01-02: 16:14:00
Great word!