DEFINITION: n. The art of sneaking to the office kitchen without having to take orders from your colleagues for coffee, or tea, or anything… v. To sneak in and out of the office kitchen without getting caught.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Coffeelude: /käfÄ“loÅd/ Down the back stairs, around to the side of the building, into the loading dock entrance, up the service elevator to the 5th floor and back down the stairs and a few quick steps to the snack room. This is the formula Georgia uses to coffeelude â€Could you get me†requests from co-workers. Now she needs to explain to her boss why a coffee break takes her 30 minutes or more. Etymology: coffee (a drink made from the roasted and ground bean-like seeds of a tropical shrub) + elude (evade or escape from) Created by: artr.
Secreat: /sea-crete/ Fiona wasn’t mean. It’s just that with ten colleagues all wanting no sugar, just black, not too strong, special hand-sewn tea bag brewed for the time it takes the earth to rotate one inch…. she’d never get any work done. So she resorted to a carfty bit of midday secreation. Etymology: secrete (to hide) + eat (to cosume; to chew and swallow food) + secret (something kept hidden or concealed) Created by: CharlieB.
Grubterfuge: /grub tur fewj/ He was a master of grubterfuge. he moved with speed and stealth invisible to almost everybody, but usually leaving a faint smell of soup in his wake. Etymology: subterfuge, grub Created by: galwaywegian.
Comments on Grubterfuge:
Nosila, 2011-03-07: 14:41:00
Supermanestrone!
Stealthyeating: /stelth ee eet ing/ Jane Bond was the Queen of stealthyeating. She’d be sitting at her desk one minute and a minute later she’d have a full meal miraculously appear at her work station. No one could figure how she made it to the kitchen and back without anyone knowing. Little did they know their mild-mannered administrative assistant had been trained by the CIA in covert cusinary capers. Etymology: Stealthy (marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed) & Wordplay on Healthy Eating (Conciously ingesting only nutritious foods) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Stealthyeating:
galwaywegian, 2011-03-07: 13:49:00
she must have been from Cavan (where they eat their dinner from a drawer)Nosila, 2011-03-07: 14:39:00
She was definitely from the Copa Cavana
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