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DEFINITION: n., A person who diligently and persistently complains about their work. v., To enjoy bellyaching about your job so much that you would never consider quitting.
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Depestic
Created by: deaninc
Pronunciation: d-pest-ic
Sentence: being depestic is physically draining
Etymology: the combincation of depression and pessimism
Gripefitter
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: grype fit ter
Sentence: Charlie had gone to trade school to get his ticket, so that he would always be able to find work. After a few years of being a pipefitter, he got bored and became a gripefitter. He complained about everything to everybody, but did not want to give up his status and benefits, plus the money was great. Apparently complaining about his job ran in his family as one of his brothers was a whine merchant, another a beef industry executive and the third a journeymoan electrician.
Etymology: Gripe (to complain) & Pipefitter (A pipefitter (also called steamfitter), not to be mistaken for a plumber, is a tradesman who lays out, assembles, fabricates, maintains and repairs mechanical piping systems)
Hateblove
Created by: emilylind
Pronunciation: the pronunciation of this word is the words " hate " the letter b and ' love '
Sentence: I hateblove this job .
Etymology:
Employmenagaddictomist
Created by: maryamwebster
Pronunciation: employ-men-NAG-a-dictomist
Sentence: "Hazel is such an employmenagaddictomist, but she'll never leave Consolidated - she likes her office chair too much."
Etymology: Employment, gainful work, Nag meaning to kvetch and complain, addict, one who is addicted to the preceding, -omist ending indicating a set prediliction
Whinaholic
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: whin/a/hol/ic
Sentence: My boss is a major whinaholic about his job. Our hours are 8:30 - 5:00, but he arrives at 7:30 and leaves at 5:30 so he can smooze and cruise with the staff, but never stops bitching about all that he has to do.
Etymology: WHINAHOLIC - noun - from WHINE (snivel, or complain in a self-pitying way) + WORKAHOLIC (One who has a compulsive and unrelenting need to work)
Masoccupachism
Created by: Stackd
Pronunciation: mas-ok-yu-pa-kiz-uhm
Sentence: Her masoccupachism was starting to annoy her coworkers, constant complaining of her work was driving them crazy.
Etymology: combination of masochism (gratification gained from pain, deprivation, degradation, etc.) and occupation.
Whinetofiver
Created by: verbony
Pronunciation: wine-too-five-er
Sentence: Would you just listen to that whinetofiver
Etymology: whinny+nine-to-fiver
Occupulation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ock-yew-pule-AY-shun
Sentence: Reginald griped and complained so often and so long at work that most folks realized that whining had become his ocupulation, a fact that had many of them wishing he'd take his skills elsewhere.
Etymology: Blend of 'occupation' (a person's usual or principal work or business) and 'pule' (whine)
Disployee
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dis-ploi-ee
Sentence: Mack is a great disployee. No matter what the company does, he can find the down side of it. The company throws a holiday party; they should have put the money into larger raises. The company pays for employee's parking; garages are ugly and unhealthy because of exhaust fumes. If his dad wasn't the owner, he'd have quit long ago.
Etymology: dis (to show disrespect for; affront) + employee (a person working for another person or a business firm for pay)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by brimuth. Thank you brimuth! ~ James
"occupulation" is a great word, and easy to pronounce, too.
galwaywegian - 2008-09-16: 06:29:00
hillarious!
galwaywegian - 2008-09-16: 06:29:00
oops that was meant for sisyfuss
lumina - 2008-09-18: 02:22:00
Nosila! Your "pation" fit was GREAT! NOBODY stop him! HA! Is owning a pawn shop a hockupation? Shouldn't the kid on the corner in his yellow traffic get up get paid for that blockupation? Ok, somebody slap us both... :) Congrats on the win Nose!
Today's definition was suggested by brimuth. Thank you brimuth. ~ James
wordslikevenom - 2011-06-30: 19:40:00
Vintage ;)