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DEFINITION: n. The feelings that well up inside of you when you're waiting for service and another person, who arrived after you did, gets waited first! v. To wait and wait in line, only to watch other people jump the queue.
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Dissqueueiet
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: diss kew waii et
Sentence: His dissqueueiet led to the linisation of the interlopers.
Etymology: disquiet queue diss
Buttinfury
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: but-in-feeuhr-eee
Sentence: Her buttinfury heightened to a frenzied state when every item that he wanted to purchase had no price codes so the cashier had to call the manager over to find the prices for each of his 54 items, one by one...
Etymology: butt-in (as in to intrude in line) + fury (rage)
Cutniption
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kut-nip-shuhn
Sentence: Jerry just about had a cutniption when people appeared to be butting in the line waiting to get into the club. Yeah, sure they are EMTs dealing with an ill patron but shouldn't they have to wait like everybody else. At least the sick person should have had the courtesy of falling out of the queue.
Etymology: conniption (fit, temper fit) + cut (to move or thrust oneself abruptly between others)
Queuecumber
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kew kum ber
Sentence: George was a right queuecumber. He'd line up every day for the commuter train and sure enough, some selfish person would muscle past him at the last minute and get on before him, usually taking his favourite seat. One day, that guy got on George's last nerve. He shoved him under the tracks as the train was pulling out. George had a one-track mind and the pushy guy is now a choocumber.
Etymology: Queue (line up of people) & Encumber (hold back)
Turnburn
Created by: ChickenWhistle
Pronunciation: TERN-bern
Sentence: "Aww, man! I had a bad case of turnburn at the greengrocers yesterday. I must've been queuing for twenty minutes before I'd finally got to the front of the dismally short, yet depressingly slow line to the till. An old dear, (who must've been pushing a hundred if I'm a day,) in a pink, floral headscarf waddled completely obliviously past me and the people behind me straight to the counter. Wherefore she plonked her bag of tangerines and then spent ten minutes trying to find a twenty pence piece at the depths of her ancient purse. I would've given up and left in a huff if it wasn't for the great deal I was getting on white asparagus."
Etymology: Turn - e.g., "take it in turns, one at a time." Burn - (vernacular) a negative/painful experience. E.g., "Oh duuude, you got burned!"
Scanticipation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: skan tisi payshun
Sentence: Freddy the chicken awaited the farmer's visit each day, thinking he would selected for favoured treatment. Every day though, some one else was chosen. He was experiencing severe scanticipation when one day he was chosen...not knowing why. Authorities now believe he was the victim of fowl play.
Etymology: Scant (deal with inadequately and superficially) & Anticipation (wishing with confidence of fulfillment)
Waitred
Created by: garythesnail
Pronunciation: WAY-TREAD
Sentence: Harvey was waiting for ages to buy a movie ticket,when some jerk cut in front of him and got the last ticket! Harvey's waitred was so welled up, he slapped the guy.
Etymology: Wait + Hatred
Buttindignation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: butt/in/dig/nay/shun
Sentence: Sally felt the buttindignation overwhelming as someone cut in front of her at the ticketbooth and bought the last ticket.
Etymology: butt in + indignation
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COMMENTS:
that's good - petaj, 2009-04-07: 06:18:00
Good word. could have used it yesterday as well :) - galwaywegian, 2009-04-07: 07:36:00
buttinhol - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:13:00
oops ... you buttinhholed this definition! Great Create! - silveryaspen, 2009-04-07: 11:14:00
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Exqueueses
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: eckz-cue-sayz
Sentence: No one was going to listen to the histrionics of Censoria's exqueuses. Sure, she had waited in line for eight hours, asked the person in front and back of her to save her place while she used the loo, but there were no more tickets to the Crude Oil concert.
Etymology: A play on EXCUSES, to make allowances for, overlook; EX + QUEUE, a line
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COMMENTS:
neat - Jabberwocky, 2009-04-07: 15:26:00
Very hermetic. Lovely. - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:41:00
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Queuoma
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: cuo ma
Sentence: Henny’s queuoma spared her life for quite a while! She pleasantly stood in line in a kind of queuoma, and failed to notice the other stupidly eager birds stepping out in front of the line. As she neared the start of the line the sights and sounds before her were reminding her she was a chicken! Horrid chops! Oh the panic! Running around with their heads cut off! Henny forced herself back into her queuoma, allowing all other rude birds passage a HEAD!
Etymology: From queu (to line up) and coma (a state of unconsciousness). Queuomas occur when lining up and not noticing others stepping ahead in line and not really caring.
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COMMENTS:
SPLENDID word! - metrohumanx, 2009-04-08: 02:17:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by abrakadeborah. Thank you abrakadeborah. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-04-07: 02:41:00
Very greative cartoon, James!
abrakadeborah - 2009-04-07: 05:46:00
Thanks James! great cartoon too! It made me think hard on my own definition :)
mweinmann - 2009-04-07: 07:39:00
The cartoon was very thought provoking....that sometimes, we might want to wait or that what we are waiting for might not be the "answer" to our wishes in the end.
Thank you. I guess the feeling is that sometimes we're lucky enough NOT to get what we wanted. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by abrakadeborah. Thank you abrakadeborah. ~ James