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DEFINITION: v. To complain and complain about a problem without ever taking action to correct it. n. A complaint about something which you can fix but choose not to.
Verboticisms
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Annoyocity
Created by: flippinsweetswim
Pronunciation: an-oy-os-i-tee
Sentence: She just wont stop complaning! How Annoyocity
Etymology:
Bitchenmoanonucleosis
Created by: AlexCityAL
Pronunciation: bitch and moan oh new clee oh sis
Sentence: All our boss did was whine to everyone about the problems with our team that it did not take a doctor to diagnose he had a bad case of bitchenmoanonucleosis.
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Dramascret
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Dro-ma-scret
Sentence: Shelia whispered a "dramascret" to me and made me promise not to tell anyone. She was so dramatic that I thought to myself...hmmmm, OH! I must know more of her secret gossip. She always does this expecting different results. If she only would keep her dramascret's to herself,he thought,then he wouldn't be wasting his coffee break on such drivel.
Etymology: Dramatic and secret gossip
Blazemy
Created by: administraitor
Pronunciation: blai-zem-ee
Sentence: The water cooler was the place to hear a fresh blazemy in the heady work-shy days before bankruptcy
Etymology: blame + lazy
Swaitandbitch
Created by: jimmmm
Pronunciation: swait-and-bitch
Sentence: Rather than cancel his subscription to the ever-shrinking newspaper, the customer chose to 's'wait-and-bitch.
Etymology: proper spelling is 's'wait-and-bitch; from combining form 's' of "just" + wait + and + bitch
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COMMENTS:
Yo ! GOOD one! - metrohumanx, 2008-08-08: 17:44:00
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Hypocribitch
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /hɪˈpɑkɹəˌbɪtʃ/
Sentence: We all hypocribitch sometimes.
Etymology: From hypocrite + bitch
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COMMENTS:
usually while playing a game of hypocribbage - galwaywegian, 2007-06-15: 06:08:00
Must be the Season of the Bitch. (Damn this tunacy.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-06-15: 09:41:00
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Fussargy
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fəsərjē
Sentence: In a case of fussargy Alan complained that somebody had left the Xerox machine void of paper despite the fact that a pack of paper is sitting on the shelf next the copier. At that point he returned to his office leaving it just the way he found it.
Etymology: fuss (show unnecessary or excessive concern about something) + lethargy (a lack of energy and enthusiasm)
Critidawdle
Created by: kendriveset
Pronunciation: crit-i-dawdle
Sentence: Joan and Phil loved to critidawdle, especially when the bottled water machine was empty.
Etymology: criticize + dawdle
Whinecrastinate
Created by: airliebee
Pronunciation: whyne-cras-tuh-nayt
Sentence: "Jodie spends more time whinecrastinating about her fat butt than she does exercising. If she worked her body out as much as she works her jaw out, she'd be a size six too!" "Barry is the biggest whinecrastinator on the planet. He was telling me how frustrating it is that his desk is messy. Well, it's his own fault, isn't it! Why didn't he just clean it up instead of wasting his breath telling me about it? I have actual work to do!" "Thomas, your whinecrastination is beyond belief! Ever heard of Nike? Just do it, man!"
Etymology: whine - to make a complaining cry or sound + crastinate, from procrastinate - to delay or postpone action; put off doing something.
Comments:
Still bothered by office politics? Well, as Timothy Johnson advises in GUST, it's time quit complaining and take action, or at least, it's time to make up a new word about complaining... Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram and Timothy! ~ James
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Robert J. Sawyer, winner of Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, will be our featured author at Verbotomy next week. See Get a Science-Fiction Verbotomy from Robert J. Sawyer. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James