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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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Ultraprocrastination
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: altra-prau-krsti-nation
Sentence: people with ultraprocrastination have never been men of action.
Etymology: ultra means very hight or excessive one. procrastination means to delay or not taking action.
Pertunitous
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: per-tune-it-is
Sentence: Rachel was very pertunitous. She could wait forever for the perfect moment and opportunity.
Etymology: contraction of perfect and opportune
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)
Perfectopp
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Per-fect-opp
Sentence: I will perfectopp for the perfect pitch.
Etymology: Perfect oppertunity
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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Supervirtuation
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: soo-per-ver-chew-ay-shun
Sentence: The grandmasters' supervirtuation meant their pieces moving at no more than three squares per hour.
Etymology: Based on the proverb "patience is a virtue".
Aucuporence
Created by: scottman
Pronunciation: AH kyoo POHR ens
Sentence: She remained a maid into the autumn of her life, possessed as she was of an unyielding aucuporence.
Etymology: from the latin aucupor, to lie in wait for.
Opportimistic
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: op ur ti MIS tik
Sentence: Alan was opportimistic that this time he would find just the right work-from-home scheme. He considered it "job-hunting" when he was surfing the Web for ways to earn cash in his free time. And he had a LOT of free time now, since losing his job due to excessive time spent surfing the Web.
Etymology: opportunity + optimistic
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)
Fortispud
Created by: Mobelia
Pronunciation: four-ti-spud
Sentence: He's fortispuding the opportunity to advance his career.
Etymology: from Fortitude meaning patience from Spud as in couch potato
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