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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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Eubumia
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: yu - buhm - ee - uh
Sentence: Oh, the feeling of eubumia is such a gratifying experience! It is the time where we all experience unpaid bills, an upset stomach and an unhappy girlfriend. Wee!
Etymology: euphoria (a feeling of extreme happiness) + bum (a jobless person)
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COMMENTS:
Very creative! It never occurred to me to use the "eu" funnetically. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-04: 06:09:00
yep. "eu" was one of my few fundamental characturds when i was still a child. - ohwtepph, 2007-05-04: 07:29:00
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Ergasm
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ur-gazm
Sentence: Bob had an ergasm when he finally ended his stellar career as head fish de-header at Sal's Scrumptious Squid and More.
Etymology: erg, orgasm
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COMMENTS:
no doubt you're getting that Doctorow Book this week. - ohwtepph, 2007-05-04: 07:35:00
I think the book is for next week and it's a mug this week. If I win, it would be the first thing I've won since that Beatle's album in 7'th grade (which my brother subsequently lost). - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-04: 07:59:00
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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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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:
Corpelation
Created by: schroesd
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Leaving his job as a cubicle drone filled Joe with corpelation.
Etymology:
Licentophoria
Created by: missleigh
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Latin-licentia : license, leave, authorization /freedom, liberty = Euphoria....
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.
Tickledpinkslip
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
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)
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