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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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Javapathy
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /JA-vap-uh-thee/
Sentence: Veronica hated going to the coffee shop next to the building where she worked because it seemed to always be filled with fateful, indifferent, Generation-Y'ers who were filled with javapathy, and acted world-weary and jaded beyond their years. They usually appeared to be alert and perceptive young adults, although that may have just been from all the caffeine. So, why didn't these people have jobs? Who was supporting these flocks of coffee house beatniks, sitting around scowling at the rest of the world, and sipping expensive café mocha lattes?
Etymology: Java - brewed coffee; coffee from the island of Java (Slang, from Java, an island in Indonesia where coffee is grown) + Apathy - lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things in general; indifference (from Greek, apathes "without emotion")
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COMMENTS:
nice one. - stache, 2008-05-16: 08:41:00
Add in tidapthy - nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-18: 18:27:00
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Caffunk
Created by: melodydrama
Pronunciation: cah-funk
Sentence: As she sat in a dim corner of the cafe Eleanor pondered her unemployment and no one dared interrupt her since she was in one of her notorious caffunks.
Etymology: caffine+funk(bad mood)
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COMMENTS:
love it. - mweinmann, 2009-07-07: 00:26:00
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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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Decaffdeflated
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Dee-kaff-dee-flay-ted
Sentence: Sue had been in the cafe for over an hour, contemplating things. She could sum them up in a few words. No Job, no life, no hope!! The longer she sat there glowering over yet another cup of coffee she just got more and more decaffdeflated.
Etymology: Decaffinated(to have had caffeine removed) + Cafe(a place for refreshment)+ deflated(to become morose,depressed) = decaffdeflated
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COMMENTS:
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-16: 10:14:00
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Grumpause
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: grum pawz
Sentence: They are in there every morning like clockwork. Nursing one coffee for 2-3 hours every day. In fast food places, coffeehouses and other places with free refills and free bathrooms. The Grumpause. They complain about everything...the weather, politics, doctors, kids today and how they don't build things like they used to. They complain about the cost of everything and sort out the world's problems without actually doing anything. The next day, they start all over again...they've told so many stories so often, they can't remember. They are retired...they put in more time here than they did at their jobs. They mainly do this as an S.O.A...Spousal Avoidance Opportunity!
Etymology: Grump (a bad-tempered person) & Pause (a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something) & Grandpas (the fathers of your father and mother)
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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Secmo
Created by: Kallystie
Pronunciation: sec-mo
Sentence: Maggie recently moved to Seattle for a job. After she moved to Seattle, she found out that her job was given to somebody more qualified. Day after day she sat at her local café, brooding over the lose of her job over a small Americano. One day she though to herself…I have become such a secmo. I should stop feeling sorry for myself and do something about it.
Etymology: Secmo is a combination of the words Seattle, café, and emotional.
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
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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Idlepated
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: īdlpātid
Sentence: Roger is completely idlepated. He is so annoyed at not having a job that he refuses to look for one. Afterall, doing so means he has to come in contact with the very people who put him in this state to begin with. He knows so much more than those jerks who call themselves managers but can,t stand the thought of BEING one of those arrogant morons. So here he sits at Java Joe,s, emotionally constipated, plotting what he won,t do next.
Etymology: idle (not working; unemployed; avoiding work; lazy) + addlepated (lacking in common sense; having a muddled mind)
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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