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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.
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Abergophoria
Created by: mustilicor
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Abergophoria is often a short-lived pleasure, much like the nice, warm feeling of wetting your pants.
Etymology: ab - away from; ergo - work; and of course euphoria ...plus it has the word 'gopher' in there, which is always a plus.
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COMMENTS:
true friendship is like wetting your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel its true warmth - mana1066, 2007-05-06: 22:51:00
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Freelief
Created by: Rhyme79
Pronunciation: fruh-leef
Sentence: "I'm so completely overwhelmed by a sense of freelief, I think I might quit my next job too, and spend what's left of my existence as a bum in freeliefdom!""
Etymology: An amalgamation of the words 'free' 'and relief'.
Libainam
Created by: omniscientamnesiac
Pronunciation: lahy-beyn-m
Sentence: He was filled with libainam, after telling his boss to shove it.
Etymology: Lib from the term liberate; ainam from the literal reverse of the word mania.
Quiphoria
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
Fhukinay
Created by: petersn1
Pronunciation: fuk-in-a
Sentence: Fhukinay that job sucked!
Etymology:
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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Lesterbeautirush
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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Unemployjoy
Created by: daisy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Alan's unemployjoy prevented him from realizing he would be eating macaroni and cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner from now on.
Etymology:
Mcstasy
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)
Joquippy
Created by: grahaff
Pronunciation: jaw kwi pee
Sentence: Micheal was so joquippy after quiting his dull mail job that he decided to invite his friends over to his house for ice cream.
Etymology: jo (job) qui (quit) ppy (happy)
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