Verboticism: Blooprint
DEFINITION: v. To stick to your plan even though you've realized it's dumb. n. A stupid plan, especially if it's a career plan suggested by parents, teachers or guidance counselors who want you to be something that you're not.
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Momentdumb
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: moe-ment-dum
Sentence: Jillian had an epiphany about her present course of action, but her momentdumb prevented her from avoiding the train wreck that was approaching.
Etymology: momentum, an impelling force or strength + dumb, slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
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COMMENTS:
Best of the day! - Mustang, 2008-04-28: 21:22:00
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Automoron
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /aw-TOM-mohr-on/ (pronounced like the word 'automaton')
Sentence: Jill dreamed of attending Le Cordon Bleu, becoming a chef and, one day, opening her own restaurant. Yet, every day she would go into work like an automoron, hating most of those who worked at the law firm and the other senior partners because they seemed content with their occupations. Her parents had prepared her well for a career in law, but ultimately she felt that her job lacked fulfillment.
Etymology: Automaton - a self-operating machine or mechanism, especially a robot, performing routine tasks (from Greek, automatos "self-acting") + Moron - a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment (from Greek, moros "foolish, dull")
Dreamvocation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dreem vo kay shun
Sentence: Stella's dreamvocation was not the one her folks had planned out for her. They saved for her to attend Harvard, get her MBA and then take over their family potato business when they retired. This was at odds with her lifelong goal of being head greeter at Walmart.
Etymology: Dream Vacation (holiday of a lifetime) & Vocation (career,intended job)
Modusoperandumb
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: moh/duhs/op/uh/ran/dum
Sentence: A parent who pushes a child into an activity, or area where the child has no known ability, or confidence is performing an act of modusoperandumb.
Etymology: modus operandi (an unvarying, or unyielding act, method, or procedure) + dumb
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Stevenson0! - Nosila, 2009-06-08: 21:27:00
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Jobogma
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: job-OGG-muh
Sentence: Her aptitude test just made her depressed- Said her fate was to be a Webmaster… But a shepherd of sheep was her dreamjob BoPeep knew that techiestuff just slipped on past her. She decided to take their JOBOGMA to heart- And swore by it with her every breath- A servant of haste on the World Wide Waste, She cried at her Blue Screen Of Death.
Etymology: JOB+(bog)+dOGMA= JOBOGMA.....JOB: something produced by or as if by work; perhaps from obsolete English job lump.....BOG: transitive verb : to cause to sink into or as if into a bog or a deadend job, impede, mire; Middle English (Scots), from Scottish Gaelic & Irish bog- (as in bogluachair bulrushes), from bog marshy, literally, soft, from Middle Irish bocc; probably akin to Old English būgan to bend.....DOGMA: a point of view or tenet put forth by a career counselor as authoritative without adequate grounds; Latin dogmat-, dogma, from Greek, from dokein to seem.
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COMMENTS:
I'm a little dismayed by the lowbrow profanity that gets twittered.... - metrohumanx, 2009-06-08: 05:14:00
Welcome back, metro...missed youand your witticisms! - Nosila, 2009-06-08: 21:26:00
great word....good to see you creating again... - mweinmann, 2009-06-09: 08:13:00
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Curridiculum
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: cure/ree/dic/ulum
Sentence: A curridiculum is often favoured by the parents of "gifted" children.
Etymology: curriculum + ridiculous
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COMMENTS:
Wow I really like your word. It has a nice ring to it. Good job! - chingbangwa, 2008-04-30: 00:52:00
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Mislabored
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: mis-labored
Sentence: Janet was mislabored because of her guidance counselor who advised her to become a gym teacher even though she had a full scholarship to Peabody for voice. "What can you do with a degree in voice?" he asked. "If you become a gym teacher you have guaranteed income."
Etymology: Misled: given bad advice + labor: work + mislabeled: incorrect labeling
Attendunce
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: uh-ten-duns
Sentence: Looking back at Olivia's singlemindedness of attendunce to do stupid things even though she knew it would harm her in the end, led her psychiatrist to prescribe her medicine for OCD.
Etymology: attend + dunce
Dubya
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: dub-yuh
Sentence: Gosh darnit, we're gonna dubya our way through this problem until we got "mission accomplished".
Etymology: George W (Dubya) Bush
Tragictory
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: tra jik tor ee
Sentence: Lily stuck to her career plan, which was always to become a famous Opera singer...a real diva. She studied Italian, knew all the words to every aria and dreamed of debuting at La Scala or The Met. But her career plan was on a tragictory course. The one thing that she forgot was that she could not sing a note, never mind reach the high notes a soprano needs to achieve to become a star. Her frustration just made her become a demanding diva instead to her friends and family. Too bad, she never got a Handel on the old talent thing.
Etymology: Tragic (very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction) & Trajectory (path, orbit)
