Verboticisms

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: bookowl

Pronunciation: after/joon/dee/lite

Sentence: Afterjunedelight is what every teacher experiences at the end of term.

Etymology: afternoon delight (song made famous by Starland Vocal Band) + june

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COMMENTS:

After the grating of papers? - metrohumanx, 2008-07-14: 18:57:00

A+ - Stevenson0, 2008-07-14: 20:04:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: tayk-this-jawb-and-shuv-it-is-um

Sentence: Feeling immense takeshisjobandshoveitism, Craig gave everyone the finger on his way out the door.

Etymology: From the tune of the same name by Johnny Paycheck

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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: 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: missleigh

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Etymology: Latin-licentia : license, leave, authorization /freedom, liberty = Euphoria....

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: dis - con - JOB - ee - layt - uhd

Sentence: Having finally summoned the courage and determination to face his boss with his resignation, Victor was absolutely disconjobelated at the prospect of 'freedom' from the daily grind, and though he had some trepidation at the thought of facing his young wife Elena with the news, he hoped she would be as joy filled as he.

Etymology: Blend of discontinue, job, elated. Play on the word 'discombobulated'.

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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: muddy

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: eee lay shuv

Sentence: his elashove was intense but short lived, as he realised his car was clamped in the employees car park, and he was going to have to return and ask his ex-boss for the release fee

Etymology: elation as in joy. shove as in take this opportunitythat would suit an ambitious self-starter and shove it!

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