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DEFINITION: n. A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity. v. To be excessively patient.
Verboticisms
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Waitcient
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: WAIT shient
Sentence: "OUT"! Verbotsoxz players sought the perfect plays; ever waitcient over the unskilled pitches, their strikes and losses made them the undefeated defeated.
Etymology: WAIT with a hit of PATIENT.
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COMMENTS:
waitcients...the people in the doctors waiting room... - Nosila, 2009-10-06: 01:16:00
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Cialusmoment
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: see-AL-us-mo-ment
Sentence: He knew he should have turned left at Poughkeepsie, but it didn't feel right, so he waited for that Cialusmoment and ultimately ended his journey in Tucson.
Etymology: Cialus - an erectile dysfunction medication whose commercial asks the question "When the time is right, will you be ready?"; moment
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COMMENTS:
I LOVE this one! Very funny! - jedijawa, 2007-03-19: 14:49:00
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Caseyatthebatitude
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: kay-see-at-the-bat-i-tood
Sentence: Bill's caseyatthebatitude casued him to never place any bets at the roulette wheel as he kept waiting for the right moment that never came.
Etymology: From the poem "Casey at the Bat" where Casey kept waiting and eventually struck out when he was meant to be the hero of the day.
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COMMENTS:
very funny - good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-19: 16:14:00
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Oppeternity
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: op-ah-turn-it-ee
Sentence: she had turned down every man that had ever asked her out, because none of them were quite right...and by golly even if it took all the oppeternity she possessed... she would eventually find him
Etymology: opportunity, eternity
Foreverbearance
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: for ever ber ans
Sentence: Baseball had not been very, very good to Joe. He waited patiently for the perfect pitch. He should switch, he'd never get rich, he made others twitch, he'd get jock-itch, there was always a glitch and many thought that the hitch was because he was under the spell of a witch. But Joe had foreverbearance. Most people thought he should play hockey and be satisfied being a Toronto Maple Leaf instead. Afterall he'd be in good company waiting for a Stanley Cup win since 1967!
Etymology: Forever (for a limitless time) & Forbearance (good-natured tolerance of delay)
Inordealsty
Created by: catgrin
Pronunciation: in-awr-deel-stee; in-awr-deel-stey
Sentence: In her inordealsty, Candy had failed to dance all night while waiting for Joe to ask her.
Etymology: inordinate (not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive) + ideal (a standard of perfection or excellence) + stay (to remain through or during)
Idealay
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: I-dee-LAY
Sentence: I have no hope of achieving idealay - I just cannot wait until I have developed the acme of verbotocisms to play the game. I delay no longer - here is my humble attempt.
Etymology: I (me) + ideal (perfect) + delay (postponement forcing a wait)
Letharjectivism
Created by: buck180
Pronunciation: leth-ahr-JEC-tiv-iz-um
Sentence: The coach, while watching Billy during practice, realized the boy suffered from letharjectivism which caused him to hold his swing unless the pitch was absolutely perfect, and as a result he would need to cut Billy from the team.
Etymology: A pairing of lethargic (a severe lack of motivation) and perfectionism (striving for the paradigm).
Errornoia
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: errornoia
Sentence: He was so trapped in errornoia that he never did not do nothing aka he did nothing or didn't do anything in his life.
Etymology: The fear to make errors. Error + Paranoia.
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COMMENTS:
this is good! - wordmeister, 2007-05-13: 13:56:00
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Mentalpatience
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: men-tal-pay-shense
Sentence: Jill became a patient the mental hospital because of her mentalpatience in sitting at home waiting for Mr. Right to come along.
Etymology: mental patient/ patience
Comments:
mplsbohemian - 2007-03-19: 10:42:00
This is the best batch of words I've seen yet. :)
wordmeister - 2007-03-19: 17:50:00
There so many good ones... But which one should I vote for? I'd like to zensist on a cialusmoment but I may have too much infinatience and succumb to preparalysis, or even aucoporence. Is this caseyatthebatititude, or just godotancy?
Hey Verbotomists, Great words last week. Nosila was the top player, but since she won "The Eyre Affair", the prize "Lost in a Good Book" goes to mrskellyscl. This week we are giving away Jasper Fforde's "The Well of Lost Plots". Be creative, and good luck to all. ~ James