Verboticisms

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈnɪtˌtɪkɚ/

Sentence: I don't mean to be a nitticker, but when you say that my pizza will be here in 30 minutes or less, do you mean from now, or from the time I called?

Etymology: from nitpicker + tick (as in a clock)

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COMMENTS:

great word ErWenn - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 14:46:00

Very good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 17:48:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: klok/stawk

Sentence: Jim, our obnoxious, irritating, micro manager, clockstalks every employee ensuring that they give 110% of their working time to the company.

Etymology: clock + stalk

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COMMENTS:

Great word with many applications. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 17:47:00

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Rita is a lovely metermaidservant who worships the clock.

Etymology: meter maid + maid servant

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Created by: arrrteest

Pronunciation: klok-ants

Sentence: Angie had been working late for the past few weeks without any complaint or second thought. That is, until she had to leave on time to get home to fix dinner for her fiance's parents. She was clockant as she tip-toed past her boss's office. Breathing a sigh of relief when she cleared the doorway, she looked up and he was right in front of her. "Leaving, are you?" he said in a snooty voice. She pretended not to hear him and slipped out the door.

Etymology: clock, a device for noting the time + ant

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: min - ut - jer

Sentence: Clyde was a brutal minutger. No matter how many hours his employees worked, he monitored every minute that they spent going to the bathroom, eating lunch, or talking to customers. He wanted to make sure that not a minute was ever wasted

Etymology: minute, manager

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: bos-itch

Sentence: Mr. Needler Nosey was such a bositch to his employees and only noticed what he presumed was bad behavior.

Etymology: Boss- A person in charge of the company employees. *itch- Slang for a person who complains about everything.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kruh-nol-oh-ger

Sentence: Cindy's boss can be a real chronologre when he wants to be. He acts like you are stealing from him personally if you clock out even a minute early. Maybe if he had the skill or drive to do something really useful life would be different.

Etymology: chronology (the arrangement of dates, events, etc, in order of occurrence) + ogre (a monstrously ugly, cruel, or barbarous person)

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: krawn-in-TIM-eh-dayt

Sentence: The new office manager moved his desk to the area next to the door and hung a huge clock on the wall just above his head and anytime anyone appeared to be on the way out early he would chronintimidate them by pointing to the clock and shaking his head.

Etymology: Blend of chronometer (clock) and intimidate.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: chrawn - AUWM - uh - tyz

Sentence: Edgar had developed the annoying habit of perching where he could see all his workers as quitting time approached and he would attempt to chronaumatize anyone who even looked as though they might be trying to sneak out a few minutes early.

Etymology: Blend of chronometer (clock) and traumatize.

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COMMENTS:

I know people like that - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 09:03:00

Lumberg!!! - scissorlips, 2008-04-23: 10:58:00

Lumberg,indeed! Nice blend. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-23: 17:45:00

Lumberg it is! Uhhh, what or who is Lumberg? Or dare I ask? LOL - Mustang, 2008-04-23: 20:00:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: tok tik ree lay shun ship

Sentence: The interaction, which had always borne the hallmarks of a tocktickrelationship ended badly. The subsequent surgical attempts to reverse the offense which led to its demise proved unsuccessful, leading to extreme embarassment every time her now ex-boss had to travel abroad. He would regularly be stopped and stripsearched at airports and advised by security staff that it was the first time they had found somebody trying to smuggle a twenty dollar watch out of the country using that particular technique.

Etymology: tock tick, toxic relationship

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COMMENTS:

reminds me of the crocodile in Peter Pan but then that would be a croctocktickrelationship - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-23: 08:59:00

But this is just pretend so it is a mocktocktickrelationship, but if it was in the clinic, it would be a doctocktickrelationship or in a gym, a jocktocktickrelationship or in a hosiery store, a socktocktickrelationship...it's endless possibilities! - Nosila, 2008-04-23: 20:34:00

...or between sports acne physicians, a pockmarkjockdoctocktickrelationship - stache, 2008-04-23: 21:57:00

What have I begun? - galwaywegian, 2008-04-24: 04:40:00

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