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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.
Verboticisms
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Stoiextracism
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: stoh-uh-ek-struh-siz-uhm
Sentence: He who hesitates or practices stoiextracism is lost.
Etymology: stoicism + extra
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COMMENTS:
Might be time for a stoiexorcism! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:25:00
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Ukillop
Created by: doig1394
Pronunciation: oo-kill-op
Sentence: the kid had a serious issue of ukillop
Etymology:
Righencemt
Created by: leeannhamers
Pronunciation: ra- i-inc-m-ta
Sentence: i wanted to ask him but i was in a stage of righencment
Etymology: right/patence/ moment
Placidelay
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: plass + ih + dih + lay
Sentence: Some day my ship will come in - until that day, I placidelay.
Etymology: placid + delay
Willtopatience
Created by: Janbo
Pronunciation: Pronounced in a continuous manner.
Sentence: His willtopatience is too great for his own good.
Etymology:
Tiltymezend
Created by: brimuth
Pronunciation: till - time - zend
Sentence: The spouse perfected tiltymezend-ism after many years of waiting for his wife to make up her mind on which dress to buy whenever they went shopping.
Etymology: Until - the end - of time.
Eternalretentive
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: e-turn-al-ree-tent-iv
Sentence: Penelope's eternalretention was so bad that it was being mimicked by her digestive system. It was always waiting for the perfect piece of cuisine - so she was fading away.
Etymology: anal retentive + eternity
Perfictionism
Created by: phonematode
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Stymied by her own perfictionism, she kept letting go of Mr. Right in search of Mr. Unfreakinbelievable. Now in her 70's she can frequently be heard muttering "All good things come to those who wait..." to her half dozen cats.
Etymology: fiction + perfectionism
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COMMENTS:
The thing about spinsters- to quote Earlene White- "a woman who knows all the answers but has never been asked the question." Love the sentence and a nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:59:00
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Constipatience
Created by: VersaVice
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: patience + constipation, inspired by the saying "either sh*t, or get off the pot!"
Immorebilized
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: im/mohr/buh/lahyzd
Sentence: His perfectionist tendencies left him completely and utterly immorebolized.
Etymology: immobilized + more
