Verboticisms

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

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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)

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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: 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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COMMENTS:

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: porsche

Pronunciation: jaw/bi/lay/shun

Sentence: Jim experienced jobilation the day he joined the unemployed

Etymology: jubilation + job

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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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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: AnnieChandon

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Created by: mplsbohemian

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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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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dee/liver/dans

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

Etymology: deliverance + riverdance

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COMMENTS:

reely impressive - galwaywegian, 2007-05-04: 06:58:00

Oh yes.. that's really good. - pinwheel, 2007-05-04: 07:44:00

thank you - reely (just got that one - funny) - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-04: 11:13:00

by jiggo it is a goody. - petaj, 2007-05-04: 20:22:00

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