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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.
Verboticisms
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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!"
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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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
Ukillop
Created by: doig1394
Pronunciation: oo-kill-op
Sentence: the kid had a serious issue of ukillop
Etymology:
Perfatience
Created by: pipipipipi
Pronunciation: per-fay-shents
Sentence: "His perfatience often hindered him in getting anything done"
Etymology: perfection and patience
Immorebilized
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: im/mohr/buh/lahyzd
Sentence: His perfectionist tendencies left him completely and utterly immorebolized.
Etymology: immobilized + more
Pronauseastination
Created by: gazissax
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Evan was a classic ballcrastinator: he was often struck out for waiting for the ideal pitch.
Etymology: nausea=from ad nauseaum, to go on to the point of sickness; procrastination=to put off and off
Zencessive
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: zen/cess/ive
Sentence: He has a zencessive personality, constantly in meditation and self-contemplation waiting always for the perfect moment to act. Because of his zencessiveness, he often misses out completely.
Etymology: zen + excessive
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COMMENTS:
Om good! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-11: 13:46:00
You really zend me! Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:41:00
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Eternitease
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: ee/turn/i/teez
Sentence: It didn't matter how long he had to wait. He was an eternitease so he could wait forever
Etymology: eternity + tease
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COMMENTS:
Another good one! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-11: 13:44:00
But he will finish up in an eterni-box. Handsome word in look and sound. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:13:00
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Purpoise
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: purr-poiz
Sentence: In trying to create a verboticism to match today's verbinition, Bob was willing to wait with purpoise.
Etymology: A blend of purpose: a goal; the thing you want to achieve; and poise: a state of calmness, composure, self-controlled under strain or pressure.
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COMMENTS:
if Bob is a porpoise he would be a porpoise with a purpoise - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-11: 12:24:00
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