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DEFINITION: n. A feeling of euphoria which occurs when you finally quit your boring, mind-numbingly dull, and emotionally unrewarding job. v. To quit your job and feel good about it.
Verboticisms
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Redundancing
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: rehd unnn dan sing
Sentence: News of his sacking led to a bout of redundancing. The court summons was not as ecstatically recieved
Etymology: redundancy, dancing
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COMMENTS:
redundancing with the stars... - Nosila, 2009-11-21: 01:23:00
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Freelation
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: frEE-lay-tion
Sentence: David experienced freelation as he told his boss he is quiting the job, telling him it is too boring shoveling manure from the barn. His boss stated, "you are a dairy farmer".
Etymology: free/elation
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COMMENTS:
Oh to be jobliss! - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-04: 09:23:00
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Jobilation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: job-i-la-tion
Sentence: The morning after I win the lottery I'm going to get up and go to work with glee and jobilation because I can finally tell the boss to stick his job in his happy place.
Etymology: job + jubiliation: great joy
Discontinilation
Created by: br0wn
Pronunciation: dĭs'kən-tĭn'-ĭlā'shən
Sentence: Once I left that hell hole of a job and walked out of those doors, never to come back again, I was overcome with a sense of discontinilation.
Etymology: discontinue , elation
Afterjunedelight
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: after/joon/dee/lite
Sentence: Afterjunedelight is what every teacher experiences at the end of term.
Etymology: afternoon delight (song made famous by Starland Vocal Band) + june
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COMMENTS:
After the grating of papers? - metrohumanx, 2008-07-14: 18:57:00
A+ - Stevenson0, 2008-07-14: 20:04:00
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Atlasshrugging
Created by: inkvision
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After indulging in some Atlasshrugging, she came to the realization that even though she was barely going to make it through the month financially, she was still glad she quit that poor-paying, soul-sucking academic job at Stanford.
Etymology: (mythology of Atlas, dropping the weight of the world)
Grindelerium
Created by: verysimplegame
Pronunciation: grine-duh-ler-e-um
Sentence: Overcome with grindelerium, Gene yelled back at the assistant manager that bathing occasionally couldn't hurt.
Etymology: Grind - delerium
Resignelation
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Rez-ig-nell-ayshon
Sentence: Robert had worked for the same bank for twenty-one years, doing the same thing day in day out. He never really wanted the job in the first place but his parents pushed him into it when he was younger, wanting him to follow in his father's footsteps. Now that he had finally found the courage to hand in his notice, the feeling of resignelation was overwhelming. He had already book his ticket to Australia, as the next few years of his life were going to be spent travelling around the world with no plans and best of all, no-one to answer to.
Etymology: Resign (leave voluntarily, of a job,post or position.) + Elation (an exhilarating psychological state of joy and optimism.) + Resignation (a formal document giving notice of intent to resign.) = Resignelation
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COMMENTS:
nice combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-14: 11:06:00
Good one! - Mustang, 2008-07-14: 17:49:00
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Guilliment
Created by: maskandmirror
Pronunciation: Gill-Ee-Munt
Sentence: The feeling of guilliment as I walked through the door for the very last time was such that I could not help buying myself a pizza on the way home to celebrate.
Etymology:
Whatwillneverhappentome
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My life is destroyed because of whatwillneverhappentome.
Etymology: Coined in a fit of despair after being turned down by yet another job possibility and staying stuck in a job that is destroying me.
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COMMENTS:
Oh dear! There, there. Here's a few points for you. Love, VerbMomtomist. P.S. Try usajobs.com (or course, if you are in the U.S. or fancy living there.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-04: 21:15:00
Those three points just made my day. I feel bad for abusing the game--it's just been a little bit beyond one of those days today. And I did think someone else might relate. But tomorrow, I'm off. :D CINCO DE MAYO! I have to keep soldiering, looking for new work, or better yet, looking for more education. Thanks again. PS It could be worse. My job is not dull, but what emotional rewards there are are a pyrrhic victory. - mplsbohemian, 2007-05-04: 22:39:00
I should also say that I went from discovering a job rejection to hitting Verbotomy in about three minutes' time, so I was very hot under the collar. - mplsbohemian, 2007-05-04: 22:41:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by ohmytodd.
Thank you ohmytodd! ~ James
So many good words already. I'll have to think about this after I exit MPOW, and head for the carpark. (Only vehiciousexiting going on at this time of the day) I wonder if there will be even a minor thrill as I'm only leaving for a long weekend.
Jabberwocky - 2007-05-04: 14:08:00
I heard this one years ago but I can't let the day go without passing it on to people who like funny word combos - Today is Star Wars Day - "May the 4th be with you"!!
wordmeister - 2007-05-06: 23:31:00
Maybe we should do a Star Wars week...
Discombobulated! One of my all-time favorite words, nice to see it used.
lumina - 2008-07-14: 14:35:00
Today's definition was suggested by ohmytodd. Thank you ohmytodd. ~ James