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DEFINITION: n. A person 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.
Verboticisms
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Isolatte
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: AHY-suh-lah-tey
Sentence: Roxie was an isolatte with a flat, black mindset.
Etymology: ISOLATTE: blend of isolate and latte. ALOOFEE: aloof and coffee
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COMMENTS:
fantastic!! - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-16: 10:10:00
She should really stop brewding. Great word! - Tigger, 2008-05-17: 15:05:00
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Borista
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: bow rista
Sentence: Java Lyn was such a borista, rambling on without getting to the point.
Etymology: barrista, bore
Lattetude
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: lat-ay-tude
Sentence: Naomi thought it very fashionable and cool to adopt lattetude. So after her community service in the sanitation department she took to hanging around cafés adopting poses and pouts to convey her disinterest in everything, while spending a fortune on café lattés.
Etymology: latté (milky coffee) + lassitude (lack of emotion or interest) + attitude (posture of the body)
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COMMENTS:
Absolutely splendid - Rutilus, 2008-05-16: 11:12:00
Like it a latte! - Nosila, 2008-05-16: 08:37:00
let me espresso my agreement (ouch) - stache, 2008-05-16: 08:59:00
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-16: 10:11:00
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Cafesneeria
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: kaf-ay-sneer-eeya
Sentence: Jan hated people, politicians, pets, TV, almost eveything in fact. In her own mind she was the most beautiful and gifted person on earth and it was about time someone came to her and offered her that dream job. Like all sufferers of cafesneeria, she was oblivious to her condition and its ability to divorce her from society and reality.
Etymology: cafeteria - coffee shop; sneer - scornful expression
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COMMENTS:
I think I know her. lol Very good verboticism - Mustang, 2008-05-16: 07:12:00
good one - petaj, 2008-05-17: 05:15:00
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Socialgripe
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: so shall gripe
Sentence: Akin to the socialite is the socialgripe, with no hobbies or job prospects, but plenty of serious interests in society’s problems. Sour socialgripes congregate in neighbourhood cafes to share stories of social injustices. Many socialgripes have geniune concerns, but lack resources to remedy them.
Etymology: From: socialite and gripe.
Secmo
Created by: Kallystie
Pronunciation: sec-mo
Sentence: Maggie recently moved to Seattle for a job. After she moved to Seattle, she found out that her job was given to somebody more qualified. Day after day she sat at her local café, brooding over the lose of her job over a small Americano. One day she though to herself…I have become such a secmo. I should stop feeling sorry for myself and do something about it.
Etymology: Secmo is a combination of the words Seattle, café, and emotional.
Suppoutcast
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: sup+pout+cast
Sentence: Were it not for the number of suppoutcasts constantly hanging around, there would hardly have been enough business for one coffeehouse in town, let alone several.
Etymology: sup+pout+cast
Javapathy
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /JA-vap-uh-thee/
Sentence: Veronica hated going to the coffee shop next to the building where she worked because it seemed to always be filled with fateful, indifferent, Generation-Y'ers who were filled with javapathy, and acted world-weary and jaded beyond their years. They usually appeared to be alert and perceptive young adults, although that may have just been from all the caffeine. So, why didn't these people have jobs? Who was supporting these flocks of coffee house beatniks, sitting around scowling at the rest of the world, and sipping expensive café mocha lattes?
Etymology: Java - brewed coffee; coffee from the island of Java (Slang, from Java, an island in Indonesia where coffee is grown) + Apathy - lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things in general; indifference (from Greek, apathes "without emotion")
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COMMENTS:
nice one. - stache, 2008-05-16: 08:41:00
Add in tidapthy - nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-18: 18:27:00
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Espressonated
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: es-pres-so-na-ted
Sentence: Mary is the most espressonated person I know. She can spend a whole day sitting at Starbucks drinking coffee and kvetching.
Etymology: espresso: a strong coffee brewed by forcing steam through finely ground coffee beans + expression: an outward manifistation of mood or disposition + opinionated: holding stubbornly to one's opinions; dogmatic
Bundamentalist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: bunn de menn tal ihst
Sentence: Every morning the bundamentalists would gather trailing a mass of pamphlets behind them as they shuffled to the corner booth carrying their fair-trade-not-tested-on animals-low carbon-footprint because-it-was-floated-across-the-ocean on-a-raft coffee and muffins.
Etymology: fundamentalists, bun
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COMMENTS:
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-16: 10:12:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by scissorlips. Thank you scissorlips. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by scissorlips. Thank you scissorlips. ~ James
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