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

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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

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Dedicatience

Created by: younger

Pronunciation:

Sentence: She showed extreme dedicatience sitting through the entire performance which seemed to go on for hours.

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

It's fun to say! - younger, 2007-09-11: 16:38:00

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Immorebilized

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: im/mohr/buh/lahyzd

Sentence: His perfectionist tendencies left him completely and utterly immorebolized.

Etymology: immobilized + more

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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!"

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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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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

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Tiltymezend

Created by: brimuth

Pronunciation: till - time - zend

Sentence: The spouse perfected tiltymezend-ism after many years of waiting for his wife to make up her mind on which dress to buy whenever they went shopping.

Etymology: Until - the end - of time.

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Jobstinant

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: johb-stun-ant

Sentence: some people said i was being jobstinant, but i knew eventually someone would want me to work less hours for more money and, if i was lucky, i would have unlimited access to free downloadable porn without fear of retribution

Etymology: obstinant, job [as in the biblical guy who everyone has the patience of]

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COMMENTS:

nice reference to Job - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-11: 12:21:00

Thinking outside the box! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-11: 13:47:00

Be careful you don't receive a jobation! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:10:00

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