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DEFINITION: v. To jump up and correct your boss's mistakes during a presentation because it's important to get the little details right! (Even if she doesn't think so.) n. A person who publicly (and stupidly) corrects their boss.
Verboticisms
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Inscavate
Created by: chris
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: To dig your own hole and jump in - derived from 'excavate'
Deckheckler
Created by: deadpanwalking
Pronunciation: DEK-hek-el-er
Sentence: I thought that meeting would never end with all those olympic-level deckhecklers chiming in on every slide.
Etymology: Deck (as in powerpoint deck) + heckler
Wrongbong
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: rong/bong -- just as it sounds
Sentence: The "wrongbong" seized the moment and let loose with a vortex of very vital verbs that the head honcho had seemingly overlooked in his ripsnorting remarks to the vestigial remnants seated around the board table.
Etymology: "wrongbong": a moral epithet used frequently in the corporate communications world to describe the obnoxious behavior of those who are very low on the ladder of Lilliputian life and unlikely to be in line for a promotion any time soon
Igknowramitall
Created by: wordygrrrl
Pronunciation: Ig-no-ram-it-all
Sentence: We all cringe when he corrects the Boss. How can someone be so smart and such an igknowramitall?
Etymology: ignoramus know it all
Powerpointer
Created by: alecstevenson
Pronunciation: power-pointer
Sentence: No matter how small the error was in a presentation, Joe from sales was quite the powerpointer.
Etymology: MS PowerPoint + er
Nitpickleprick
Created by: queeny
Pronunciation: nit-pickle-prick
Sentence: I have a feeling that that nitpickleprick has Mommy issues.
Etymology:
Agiticulous
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation:
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Etymology: agitating + meticulous
Knowitaholic
Created by: franke
Pronunciation: Know-it-aholic
Sentence: Bruce is a serious knowitaholic, unfortunately he doesn't know it.
Etymology: know-it-alcoholic
Prefectionism
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: pree-fec-shun-izm
Sentence:
Etymology: From prefect: a student monitor or officer, especially in a private school.
Comments:
It's a modern plague, made worse by the 'Infonet'. I know a few people like this...
- 2006-11-10: 05:11:00
Bravo!
deadpanwalking - 2006-11-10: 14:11:00
Bossanova, hahahahahaha, nice work, Mother
deadpanwalking - 2006-11-10: 14:11:00
sorry, (ahem) "BossaKNOWva."
- 2006-11-10: 19:11:00
Deadpanwalking -- your sentence made me laugh out loud. So true...