The create-a-word game
Verbinition
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Proposed Definitions:
DEFINITION: As a young, aspiring junior exec in a thriving company you lobby successfully for cost saving reforms which, when implemented, immediately result in your department and your position being eliminated.
CREATED BY: Mustang - 2008-05-20
DEFINITION: To insist on helping someone in spite of their repeated assurance that they have things well in hand and have their own remedies in mind.
CREATED BY: Mustang - 2008-05-13
DEFINITION: n. Someone who regularly sulks inside cafes and coffeehouses all day, contributing nothing more to their world than a pout. v. To glower angrily at the state of world affairs while remaining inactive and unemployed.
CREATED BY: scissorlips - 2008-05-13
DEFINITION: A person who is forever listening and watching out for all the local gossip, then insists on telling anyone she meets, whether they want to hear it or not.
CREATED BY: TJayzz - 2008-05-13
DEFINITION: (N) A computer programmer who fixes users instead of fixing their crappy program, e.g., you are not using what the programmer considers the "logical" sequence of input therefore, it is your fault that your screen refreshed and you lost all your data. You are the one who needs reprogramming/fixing. (V) To insist that it is not your computer program that is at fault, but the illogical user.
CREATED BY: purpleartichokes - 2008-05-12
DEFINITION: To be waiting in a long queue only to hear the assistant is more interested in chatting to her co-worker about what she did on her night out the previous evening.
CREATED BY: TJayzz - 2008-05-12
DEFINITION: V: To nod your head in agreement when you have absolutely no idea or interest in what is being said. N: A person who nods their head but really doesn't know what is being said.
CREATED BY: arrrteest - 2008-05-09
DEFINITION: to be inconsiderate to those fellow workers in your office by blatantly coughing and spreading illness to your coworkers, feeling no remorse for it, ignoring pleas to go home, and then blaming someone else for being patient zero who single handedly took out half the office.
CREATED BY: daniellegeorge - 2008-05-01
DEFINITION: N: The interruptions that happen when you are trying to read or write or watch a show, which don't happen when you are not trying to read or write or watch a show. V: To be interrupted by phone calls, people talking to you or pets/kids/spouse trying to get your attention while you are focused on reading, writing or trying to enjoy a movie or tv show.
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2008-04-28
DEFINITION: V: To run late in getting somewhere, like work, and have to be delayed by every red light, stalled car, train crossing, etc. which slows you down even more. N: The situation where when you are running behind, the heavens conspire to delay you even more!
CREATED BY: Nosila - 2008-04-28
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