Verboticisms

Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: job/il/a/shun

Sentence: Being one who has always "played by the rules" Jonathan could not hide his jobilation from Erica when he walked through the door a free man at 8:45 a.m, less than an hour after kissing her good-bye that Monday morning.

Etymology: root word-jubilation: exultation: a feeling of extreme joy. celebration: a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event. exultation: the utterance of sounds expressing great joy.

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Excellent word! - Mustang, 2008-07-14: 17:47:00

Quite jolly! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-14: 18:56:00

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Created by: groklord

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this word comes from the latin root "defung", meaning 'to quit'. - groklord, 2007-05-04: 19:48:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: whee fohrr tee feye vvvvvvvv

Sentence: His weefortyfive felt like a holiday, whioch was just as well, as it was the closest he would get to one for quite a while

Etymology: p45 wheee!

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COMMENTS:

Funny!!! - TJayzz, 2008-07-14: 07:40:00

welcome back galway - bookowl, 2008-07-14: 11:03:00

great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-14: 12:03:00

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: tick-eld-pihnk-slip

Sentence: Though he wasn't trying to get fired, Bob was simply tickledpickslip over losing his job at the pork rendering plant. He thought the job, while it paid the bills, simply wasn't kosher.

Etymology: tickled pink + pink slip

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: lib-err-vahn-uh

Sentence: After working for fifteen years in a totalitarian matriarchy, James was finally able, with the help of the NJEA, to cast off the yoke of academic opression and finally appreciate the sublime state of LIBERVANA which made every day blissful, and now every minute feels like.....SATURDAY.

Etymology: LIBERation+niRVANA LIBERATION-to be freed from opression NIRVANA-perfect state of mind

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Here's one for ya: http://flicklives.com/ Thanks, everybody. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-14: 05:18:00

every minute feels like Saturday - wow!! - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-14: 13:03:00

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Created by: hooterbug

Pronunciation: [hal-ee-dōl-ya]

Sentence: In an extreme state of Halledolejah, Tony took the number 5 bus downtown to file unemployment after posting his boss's email address on www.ilikebondage.com

Etymology: Combination of Hallelujah (Used to express praise or joy.) + Dole (The distribution by the government of relief payments to the unemployed; welfare.)

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funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-14: 12:51:00

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: mc/stuh/see

Sentence: After quitting his McJob, Joe pranced out the front door of McDonald's in a state of mcstasy and danced all the way home, proud that he stood up to and finally made a statement about the exploitive fast food industry of America.

Etymology: McSTASY - noun - from McJOB (a job at McDonald's, or similar type minimum wage job at Wal Mart, KFC, Arby's) + ECSTASY (euphoria, rapturous delight)

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Created by: ziggy41

Pronunciation: egg-zit-stah-see

Sentence: I was filled with extreme exitstasy when I left my boring busboy job to move on to bigger and better things! It was after i quit that i remembered I dropped out of highschool.

Etymology: Ecstasy (joyful excitement, great happiness) + exit (to abandon, as in one's job)

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Created by: HubbMU

Pronunciation: well-fare-i-la-shun

Sentence: Caught up in the way he quit his job, Tim didn't realize he feelings of welfarilation would soon come to an end.

Etymology: "Welfare" -as in what you'll be on if you don't have a job, and "Jubilation"

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - jedijawa, 2007-05-07: 11:29:00

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Created by: iwasatripwire

Pronunciation: ex-IT-uh-RAY-shun (like exhilaration but with a T)

Sentence: As I hung up my stupid Starbucks apron for the very last time, I was overwhelmed by a feeling that could only be described as exitaration.

Etymology: exhilaration + exit

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