Verboticisms

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: karenanne

Pronunciation: kwit ES ens

Sentence: Now that she had learned she was soon going to be rich, Wilby Cand decided that it would be great fun to do all those things she had always fantasized about doing if she never had to work again. She slept in on Monday morning, then sent out a company-wide e-mail to let everyone know that she wasn't coming in because she "didn't feel like it" and anyway, "Work screws with my buzz." She went on to describe her distaste with her boss's body odor, in addition to some of his personal habits, such as picking his nose when he thought no one was looking. She said it was too bad that he would be in charge of the whole company soon, since the big boss was "probably about to be prosecuted for fraud and/or will die of extreme old age." The e-mail took her a while to write since she also took care to personally mention each of her incompetent colleagues. All in all, it was the quitessence of a perfect day, replete with gratuitous cattiness, embarrassing (for everyone else) revelations, and sweet revenge, not to mention the sleeping-in part. Only after that did she read the letter again and realize that it said that she "COULD BE a winner," not that she WAS a winner....

Etymology: quit + quintessence (the purest or most perfect example of something)

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Created by: schroesd

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Sentence: Leaving his job as a cubicle drone filled Joe with corpelation.

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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

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kwitēgidē

Sentence: Though thoughts of leaving his job as Banal Retention Officer make Jason feel quittygiddy, mortgages, kids in college and living indoors make him stick with euboreia.

Etymology: quit (resign from a job) + giddy (disorienting and alarming, but exciting)

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Created by: jonobo

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Created by: weareallbeautiful

Pronunciation: k-w-ih-f-or-ee-uh

Sentence: Gary felt a moment of quiphoria as he walked out of the office building and jumped for joy as he realized he would never have to return.

Etymology: quit+euphoria

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Created by: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Hap-You-Lay-Shun

Sentence: having finally quit his job, John felt overwhelming hapulation

Etymology: Happy; Elation

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: Less-tur-byoo-tee-rush

Sentence: Having told his soulless boss where to stick his offer of a raise, Johnny felt a Lesterbeautirush so compelling that he almost went and bought so roses.

Etymology: References the best film ever made about suburbia- American Beauty. The character Lester quits his job- no more spoiler. Also from "Rush" meaning "best ever Canadian rock band".

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COMMENTS:

hee's back - Rush "best ever Canadian rock band" I hope you're kidding! - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-04: 11:12:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dee/liver/dance

Sentence: His feeling of deliverdance at quitting his job was so overpowering that he felt like Michael Flatley.

Etymology: deliverance (liberation, salvation) + riverdance (of Irish step dancing fame)

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COMMENTS:

nice! - galwaywegian, 2008-07-14: 07:22:00

Great images come to mind... - metrohumanx, 2008-07-14: 18:58:00

Ha! Funny visual! Did he wear the headband? :) - lumina, 2008-07-14: 19:35:00

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