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DEFINITION: v. To see joy and beauty where others only see complications, trouble and weeds. n. A moment of delight which dissipates as soon as it is shared.
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Fleelation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: flee lay shun
Sentence: We all get feelings of fleelation. You know when your bank statement shows money you never knew you had, only to discover that you were accidentaly credited with someone else's deposit, after you spent it, of course. When you wait for the mail and are delighted to get lots of letters. Except, they are just bills and junk mail...no correspondence from friends. You are excited to get a tax refund of $500, only to find out your spouse owes them $2000 and you are going to have to help him out to pay for it. The worst though is when you are a kid and so excited about Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, only to finally find out it is really your parents. That's fleelation!
Etymology: Flee (run away quickly) & Elation ( a feeling of joy and pride;an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression)
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COMMENTS:
Also contains an element of "fleeting" - karenanne, 2010-06-07: 22:08:00
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Positude
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: Positive and attitude
Sentence: Dude, cut the positude.
Etymology: Positive + attitude
Optipessi
Created by: eap6217
Pronunciation: Opti - pess - i
Sentence: I am feeling rather optipessi because I won on the lottery but it was only £5.
Etymology: Being optimistic and pessimistic at the same time
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COMMENTS:
Good word eap! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-31: 18:21:00
Like it, eap6217...have had similar experience...I had all the numbers for today's draw, only to discover I was looking at last week's ticket. With my luck, I will win the big one, but I will be 98 and unable to go out and spend it!! Cheers! - Nosila, 2008-03-31: 20:47:00
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Happydamper
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: hap-pE-camp-per
Sentence: Bob isn't a happydamper as Jill told hom his green lush garden is just a huge crop of skunk grass.
Etymology: happy camper/ damper
Happication
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: hah-pih-kay-shun
Sentence: Andrea was so excited to give her mother the beautiful flower she picked from the grass. When presented with it, mom only said, "What a hideous weed! Thank you for killing it sweetie!" Distraught that she had killed something, Andrea quickly ran back to the spot at which she had picked it, dug a small hole, and buried it there. She felt such a feeling of happication that she felt she had to have a funeral service for the flower as well.
Etymology: Happy (joyful, excited) + complication (something that gets in the way)
Pollynannasecond
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: pah lee NAN ah sek und
Sentence: There was that moment, that brief wonderful Pollynannasecond, between the time she reached for the hundred-dollar-bill she found on the street and the moment she saw the truck bearing down upon her, in which she exclaimed into her cell phone to her friend, "Dreams really do come true, and tomorrow I'll finally be able to spend just a little money on a treat for myself!..."
Etymology: nanosecond + Pollyanna (a fictional girl who was unstoppably and, some say, insufferably cheerful and optimistic)
Glassmostasy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: glass/most/a/see
Sentence: Sunny was full of glassmostacy and offered uplifting advice to one and all.
Etymology: glasnost (time of freedom of information in Russia) + glass half full or in this case glass most full + ecstasy
Floptimist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: flopp ta misssst
Sentence: When life gives you lemons...make a scrunched up face, she added floptimistically
Etymology: optimistic flop
Dandelionize
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: dan/dee/li/on/ize
Sentence: Depending on which of her friends you talked to, Leslie's tendency to dandelionize every situation made her either naive or optomistic.
Etymology: dandelion - plant commonly perceived as a weed, but good in salads and wine lionize -to treat as a celebrity
Transienchantment
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: trān'zē-ən-chānt'mənt
Sentence: Marvin suddenly knew his crush on the willowy blond/e he had met at the bar earlier that evening was mere transienchantment when, as they were making out in the darkened booth in the back, his hand felt the stiffening bulge beneath the front of "her" miniskirt.
Etymology: Trans, from transgender, politically correct term for the range of proclivities from cross-dressers to full-blown top and bottom transsexuals; iench, unit of measurement in the deep southern U.S.; antment, that which befalls one's honey sandwich when dropped on the ground.
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COMMENTS:
Ahh, his own personal Crying Game! - Nosila, 2008-03-31: 20:41:00
Yep, I understand, the willowy blonde was an undercover cop and the "bulge" was his gun! Very funny; good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-01: 00:02:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by an anonymous donor. Thank you! ~ James
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