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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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Jobeness
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: jobe/ness
Sentence: He felt that exercising extreme jobeness by waiting for the perfect pitch would result in fame and prosperity
Etymology: Job (as in the patience of Job) + ness (a character with special powers from the video game Earthbound)
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)
Exatience
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: (ecks-ay-shense)
Sentence: She stood waiting there with exatience not realizing she had been stood up.
Etymology: "Excessive" (unrestrained) and "patience" (intolerance).
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)
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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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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Fourbearance
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: for ber ans
Sentence: When Casey played baseball, his teammates called him Strike Four. He waited until the perfect pitch came his way, waiting for the fourth strike to be his lucky one. His fourbearance usually cost the team its game.
Etymology: Four (number) & Forbearance (good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence)
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).
Perfectopp
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Per-fect-opp
Sentence: I will perfectopp for the perfect pitch.
Etymology: Perfect oppertunity
Preparalysis
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: pre + pair + al + ih + sis
Sentence: I'm going to sell that screen play some day, if only I can get over my preparalysis and stop waiting for the "right moment."
Etymology: prepare + paralysis
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