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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.

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Constiperformance

Created by: PeePaw00

Pronunciation: consta-performance

Sentence: In his life of constiperformance, he had no choice but to quit the band before their first paying gig.

Etymology: constipation + performance

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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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Perfechance

Created by: sparkles510

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The boy's perfechance caused him to wait for weeks to ask the girl out.

Etymology:

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Perpetuism

Created by: Greatoak

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Alex stared at the cloud in a state of perpetuism. Waiting for it to dissolve.

Etymology: Perpetual

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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

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Unicorn

Created by: bridgettelve1

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Apexpectation

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: a-PEX-pec-ta-shun

Sentence: At 40 years old, Barry was still apexpecting the girl of his dreams to find and fall in love with him. His mother, on the other hand, was just hoping he would move out.

Etymology: Apex (the pinnacle) and Expecting (a state of waiting in anticipation).

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