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DEFINITION: n. A person who regularly sulks inside cafes and coffeehouses all day, contributing nothing more to their world than a pout. v. To glower angrily at the state of world affairs while remaining inactive and unemployed.
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Espressionado
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: es - press - yan - AH - do
Sentence: Definitely a cup 'half empty' pessimist, Maybellene had become a devout espressionado...whiling away the days in her favorite coffee house, sipping espresso and griping and grumbling endlessly about politics, the econonomy, and people in general.
Etymology: blend of espresso and aficionado.
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COMMENTS:
Excellent - Rutilus, 2008-05-16: 11:11:00
terrific - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-16: 10:14:00
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Lattetude
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: lat-ay-tude
Sentence: Naomi thought it very fashionable and cool to adopt lattetude. So after her community service in the sanitation department she took to hanging around cafés adopting poses and pouts to convey her disinterest in everything, while spending a fortune on café lattés.
Etymology: latté (milky coffee) + lassitude (lack of emotion or interest) + attitude (posture of the body)
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COMMENTS:
Absolutely splendid - Rutilus, 2008-05-16: 11:12:00
Like it a latte! - Nosila, 2008-05-16: 08:37:00
let me espresso my agreement (ouch) - stache, 2008-05-16: 08:59:00
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-16: 10:11:00
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Perkolazer
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: purk - oo - laz - ur
Sentence: Romona turned into a perkolazer after she lost her job at Starbucks. Instead of looking for another job, she brings her books and laptop into Starbucks each morning and sits there sipping cafe lates, wishing they would hire her back.
Etymology: perk (short for perkolate (a process used to make coffee), perkolator (a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans) laze (be idle; exist in a changeless situation)
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COMMENTS:
She\'s just brewding! Good word. - Nosila, 2009-07-06: 10:05:00
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-06: 13:24:00
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Isolatte
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: AHY-suh-lah-tey
Sentence: Roxie was an isolatte with a flat, black mindset.
Etymology: ISOLATTE: blend of isolate and latte. ALOOFEE: aloof and coffee
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COMMENTS:
fantastic!! - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-16: 10:10:00
She should really stop brewding. Great word! - Tigger, 2008-05-17: 15:05:00
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Stewbucks
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: stu-bucks
Sentence: Sara spent her days and unemployment cash brooding at Stewbucks after losing her job as a cashier at Wal-Mart for not welcoming people. "Being a cashier is too hard," she thought, "because they want you to be cheerful all the time."
Etymology: stew: be in a huff, sullen, resentful + starbucks: well-known chain of coffeehouses
Coffeegrouse
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kôfēgrous
Sentence: Ruby spends much of her day in the local coffee shop. While the waitress pours her java, she pours out her displeasure with the state of her life. Her grumbling has earned her the title of coffeegrouse.
Etymology: coffee (a drink made from the roasted and ground bean-like seeds of a tropical shrub) + grouse (complain pettily; grumble) play on coffeehouse
Espressonated
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: es-pres-so-na-ted
Sentence: Mary is the most espressonated person I know. She can spend a whole day sitting at Starbucks drinking coffee and kvetching.
Etymology: espresso: a strong coffee brewed by forcing steam through finely ground coffee beans + expression: an outward manifistation of mood or disposition + opinionated: holding stubbornly to one's opinions; dogmatic
Borista
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: bow rista
Sentence: Java Lyn was such a borista, rambling on without getting to the point.
Etymology: barrista, bore
Depresscaffe
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: dĭ-prěs'ka-fā'
Sentence: There she was again slumped over her organic Sumatra-Peru blend latte with soy milk and a double shot, in the upholstered chair section of the corner Starbucks, eyes lined in red and moping about the latest fight with her girlfriend and her relative destitution since the loss of her job in the thrift store that used to occupy this space. She'd no doubt leave again without tipping and return to the luxury condo that her dad maintained for her for some afternoon poolside tanning. What a depresscaffe.
Etymology: depression, in psychiatry, a symptom of mood disorder characterized by intense feelings of loss, sadness, hopelessness, failure, and rejection. caffè, It. for coffee,borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahveh, and the Arabic qahwa (قهوة) collectively. The origin of the Arabic term is uncertain; it is either derived from the name of the Kaffa region in western Ethiopia, where coffee was cultivated, or by a truncation of qahwat al-būnn, meaning "wine of the bean" in Arabic; also a neat rhyme with Nescafe (tm).
Abominertia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: uh-bom-in-ER-sha
Sentence: Gladys had a very bad case of abominertia, angry at the world in general and her life in particular and she took great pains to let everyone around her know just how displeased she was while making no effort whatsoever to change her status.
Etymology: Blend of 'abominable' (repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome) and 'inertia' (Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by scissorlips. Thank you scissorlips. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by scissorlips. Thank you scissorlips. ~ James
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